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(electrical engineering) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again
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repeater
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Demter is the only repeater from the 1996 team. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Four repeaters costing £140 are available for wind and boat speed, wind direction and depth and a multifunction repeater costs £160. ▪ In Chicago there ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, agent noun from repeat (v.). As a type of firearm from 1849; as "a frequent offender" from 1868.
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.