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/rɪpˈitɪŋ dˈɛsəməl/ Listen

adjective

Repeating adj. Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch.

Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3.

Repeating decimal (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.

Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; especially:

(a)

A form of firearm so constructed that by the action of the mechanism the charges are successively introduced from a chamber containing them into the breech of the barrel, and fired.

(b)

A form in which the charges are held in, and discharged from, a revolving chamber at the breech of the barrel. See Revolver, and Magazine gun, under Magazine.

Repeating instruments (Astron. & Surv.), instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous, portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation.

Repeating watch. See Repeater (a)

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Etymology of 'Repeating decimal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repeating decimal" Quotes from Famous Books

... been studied by Rollin T. Chamberlin of Chicago. Much of the vast area involved is not yet well explored; but over it all, so far as it has been fully examined, the same lithological and stratigraphical structures reappear with the persistence of a repeating decimal. And were it not for the exigencies of the theory of Successive Ages, this whole region of some five or six thousand square miles would be considered as only an ordinary example, on a rather large scale, of undisturbed horizontal stratification cut up by erosion into mountains of ...

— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price