Crossword clues for repeater
repeater
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repeater \Re*peat"er\ (-?r), n. One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically:
A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
A repeating firearm.
(Teleg.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.
A person who votes more than once at an election. [U.S.]
See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.
(Naut.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, agent noun from repeat (v.). As a type of firearm from 1849; as "a frequent offender" from 1868.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context electronics English) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power. 2 (firearms) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot. 3 In ufology and similar studies, a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomenon. 4 A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. 5 (context US English) One who votes more than once at an election. 6 A repeating decimal. 7 (context nautical English) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
WordNet
n. a person who repeats; "the audience consisted largely of repeaters who had seen the movie many times"
someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) [syn: recidivist, habitual criminal]
a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading [syn: repeating firearm]
(electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again; "repeaters can be used in computer networks to extend cabling distances"
Wikipedia
In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power, or onto the other side of an obstruction, so that the signal can cover longer distances. Some types of repeaters broadcast an identical signal, but alter its method of transmission, for example, on another frequency or baud rate in the context of radio. There are several different types of repeaters; a telephone repeater is an amplifier in a telephone line, an optical repeater is an optoelectronic circuit that amplifies the light beam in an optical fiber cable; and a radio repeater is a radio receiver and transmitter that retransmits a radio signal. A broadcast relay station performs an analogous role in broadcast radio and television.
Repeater is the full-length debut studio album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was released on April 19, 1990, as Repeater on LP, and in May 1990 on CD bundled with the 3 Songs EP as Repeater + 3 Songs. It was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, and produced and engineered by Don Zientara and Ted Niceley.
Repeater is often regarded as a definitive album for the band and a landmark of rock music. It has been described as an "angrier American update of Gang of Four's Solid Gold." It has also been noted for its complex interplay of guitar and rhythm section. It is included in the book 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.
Repeater is a five-piece rock band from Long Beach, California.
A repeater is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock that audibly chimes the hours and often minutes at the press of a button. There are many types of repeater, from the simple repeater which merely strikes the number of hours, to the minute repeater which chimes the time down to the minute, using separate tones for hours, quarter hours, and minutes. They originated before widespread artificial illumination, to allow the time to be determined in the dark, and were also used by the visually impaired. Now they are mostly valued as expensive novelties by watch and clock enthusiasts. Repeaters should not be confused with striking clocks or watches, which do not strike on demand, but merely at regular intervals.
A repeater is a telecommunications device that amplifies a signal.
Broadcast relay stations, cellular repeaters, microwave radio relays, tunnel transmitters, radio repeaters, amateur radio repeaters and communications satellite transponders all act as repeaters in that they receive and amplify a radio signal for rebroadcast.
Repeater may also refer to:
- Multiport repeater, a simple computer network hub
- Optical communications repeater, an alternative to optical amplifiers on communications fibre
- Passive repeater, a radio-signal reflector with no electronic amplification
- Repeat offender, in criminology
- Repeater (album) and title track by post-hardcore band Fugazi
- Repeater (horology), a type of watch or clock
- Repeater (student), a student repeating a grade
- Repeating rifle, a kind of firearm
- Repeater, an alternate term for the kété, a drum used in the music of Jamaica
- Repeater (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Repeater (band), a band from Long Beach, California.
- a repeater flag is used in the International maritime signal flags to substitute for a flag already used
Usage examples of "repeater".
At the aft end of the conn was a display console housing repeater panels for the sonar set and the firecontrol computer as well as the red handset of a NESTOR satellite secure-voice radio system.
Keebes looked up into the overhead at the television repeater, wondered if the approach of nightfall would make the blockade that much more difficult.
The master came up and shewed me a gold repeater with a chain also of gold by a well-known modern maker.
This girl skewed me a repeater, for which she had got up a lottery at twelve francs a ticket.
Becoming suspicious, they got the drop on the men and forced them to reveal what the loads were: your pestiferous repeaters and ammunition for same.
Adrien Ricimer had equipped himself with helmet, torso armor, and a slung cutting bar as well as the repeater he carried.
One of the suits was silvered, and the rifle slung from it was the ornate, pump-action repeater Gregg had seen on Virginia.
The repeater system was installed at the Port Authority police desk in 5 WTC, to be activated by members of the Port Authority police when the FDNY units responding to the WTC complex so requested.
The machine that created the plastic volumetrical models on the bases of their pulsed scanning was called an electronic-acoustic repeater.
USS billfish As Billfish levelled out at 546 feet the broadband sonar trace on the video repeater winked out.
Stephen had had plenty of time to reflect upon the trifling interval between the perception of a grateful odour and active salivation and to make a variety of experiments, checked by his austerely beautiful and accurate Breguet repeater, before the door burst open and the Commodore strode in, sure-footed on the heaving deck and scattering seawater in most directions.
Commander Laalthaa crouched on the saddlelike construction which served his people as an acceleration couch and watched his small tactical repeater plot as the rest of the squadron settled into place about his gunboat.
No message would be able to reach us during the entire mission for the buoys were one-way repeaters.
He stopped in the middle of the chartroom, and his head swung towards the repeater screen of the computer.
Thrr-gilag found himself studying the two different crossbow styles: the multishot repeaters carried by the war party, the much simpler two-shot models of the mountain Chig.