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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
repetitive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
repetitive strain injury
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ Although the diagram is simple and highly repetitive, few will get it completely correct.
▪ Relay assembly was a highly repetitive, manual job.
▪ The store manager said that core staff motivation was a problem because after a while the job becomes highly repetitive.
▪ A highly repetitive, textured and grouped baseline is promoted by a series of small mutations that do not interrupt its continuity.
■ NOUN
job
▪ Thus occupied on this repetitive job, the mind is free to wander and daydream.
▪ Such jobs will be eliminated just as manual, repetitive jobs were replaced by automation in the 1980s.
▪ It removes the need for G-cramps and battens for many tasks, and speeds up repetitive jobs.
▪ Taylor believed in the division of labour since tasks could be broken down into simple repetitive jobs.
▪ Many people doing boring or repetitive jobs deliberately introduce a certain amount of stress to make the routine more exciting.
strain
▪ Office workers can suffer from work-related ill-health such as repetitive strain injury.
▪ Can children get repetitive strain injury from playing too much Super-Nintendo?
task
▪ The same knowledge can of course help design robots to replace the human in certain skilled but repetitive tasks.
▪ Computers are now being brought into this profession to perform repetitive tasks.
▪ For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness.
▪ They were seen as mindless individuals who could take on repetitive tasks.
▪ Both groups dislike repetitive tasks and have learned to delegate to others.
work
▪ Elimination of tedious repetitive work such as casting and balancing. 5.
▪ These costs were attributed to job dissatisfaction caused by boring, repetitive work.
▪ This applies particularly to routines and repetitive work where the main operator limitation is not capacity or skill but stamina.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of the work we have to do is repetitive.
▪ As children we suffered through schoolwork that was dull and repetitive.
▪ He has some good ideas, but his lectures can get a little repetitive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A total of eight calls were made that day and although a routine became evident, it was never repetitive.
▪ But we believe that under the less than optimal circumstances of reality, repetitive reorganizing does far more damage than good.
▪ Clonic refers to repetitive rhythmical involuntary muscle contractions.
▪ I think the same process occurs in the repetitive rhythm of slow long-distance running.
▪ In the culture of the copy, he has written the perfect book: original and repetitive at once.
▪ These repetitive simultaneous pressure waves usually occurred together with the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex.
▪ This idea of a perpetually repetitive pattern of events inspired a sense of security from the menace of change and decay.
▪ Yet perhaps the most frustrating incompetence of all is that which is repetitive.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repetitive

Repetitive \Re*pet"i*tive\ (r?-p?t"?-t?v), a. Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
repetitive

1805, from Latin repetit-, past participle stem of repetere "do or say again" (see repeat (v.)) + -ive. Related: Repetitively; repetitiveness.

Wiktionary
repetitive

a. Happening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating.

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WordNet
repetitive

  1. adj. persistently continual; "the bluejay's insistent cry" [syn: insistent]

  2. marked by tedious repetition [syn: iterative, reiterative, repetitious]

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Usage examples of "repetitive".

Repetitive touching of the body surface results in a decrease in the amplitude and probability of withdrawal of the gill and siphon, a decrease which can persist for weeks.

Their breakthrough consisted of characterizing very short and scrambled repetitive sequences within junk DNA that could be demonstrated to code instructions for higher hierarchical operations than they were used to seeing at the gene level -cell differentiation, information order sequencing, apoptosis and the like.

Their breakthrough consisted in characterizing very short and scrambled repetitive sequences within junk DNA that could be shown to code instructions for higher hierarchical operations than they were used to seeing at the gene levelcell differentiation, information order sequencing, apoptosis, and the like.

Extensive early childhood aggressive and sexualized vengeful preoccupations and sadistic acts either indulged in by reenactment of trauma or repetitive play not only develops their reasoning for murder but also rehearses the methods.

She pointed Daystar Clarion at the Patriarch, holding it steady until she could catch one of the repetitive notes.

And more than ever before, the donjuanesque journey here points, by its repetitive crossings of borders, to the supreme cleft of time: the one between memory and forgetting and through this between irony and nostalgia.

Tiny cries and a repetitive scream for help come up from someplace downhill to the east, presumably Enfield Marine.

It demands only the cessation of experiments which are PURELY REPETITIVE DEMONSTRATIONS OF KNOWN FACTS.

I have learned from long, hard, repetitive experience that food processors can, will, and do put sugar, corn syrup, corn starch, and other nutritionally empty, carb-filled garbage into every conceivable food product.

Most of those OpSys workers are still stuck in the types of repetitive processing jobs which are inherent to governmental operations.

She tried to think, but that whispering voice was starting to mesmerize her-the repetitive phraseology, the short chantlike bursts of speech.

Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.

There was something curiously menacing in the repetitive drumbeats that seemed to come from nowhere.

Once, out of curiosity, she decided to keep track of something like he did, and since the moon moved through repetitive cycles, she decided it would be fun to see how many notches it would take to complete one cycle.

Either the sailors had better hearing or, more likely, they could have kept pace in their sleep by virtue of their repetitive training.