repeater /ɹɪˈpiːtə(ɹ)/noun 14forms 1 noun14 •One who or that which repeats. •A student repeating a course, class, or grade. •A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms. •A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services. •(US) One who votes more than once at an election.The pimps and the panders, the cadets and maquereaux… they vote the ticket of the organization; they contribute to the campaign funds; they serve as colonizers and repeaters at the polls. — 1912 •A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena. •A repeating decimal. •In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern. •A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message. •An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power. •A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals. •(old-fashioned) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot. •A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. •A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated. formsrepeaters