repeat
repeat (rĭ-pētʹ) verb
repeated, repeating, repeats
verb, transitive
1. To say again: repeat a question.
2. To utter in duplication of another's utterance.
3. To recite from memory.
4. To tell to another.
5. To do, experience, or produce again: repeat past successes.
6. To express (oneself) in the same way or words: repeats himself constantly.
verb, intransitive
1. To do or say something again.
2. To commit the fraudulent offense of voting more than once in a single election.
noun
Abbr. rpt.
1. An act of repeating.
2. Something repeated: a repeat of a television program.
3. Music. a. A passage or section that is repeated. b. A sign usually consisting of two vertical dots, indicating a passage to be repeated.
adjective
Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated: a repeat offender; a repeat performance of the play.
[Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, to seek again : re-, re- + petere, to seek.]
repeatabilʹity noun
repeatʹable adjective
Synonyms: repeat, iterate, reiterate, restate. The central meaning shared by these verbs is "to state again": repeated the warning; iterate a demand; reiterating a question; restated the obvious.