repeat

Meanings

Verb

• To do or say again (and again).
• To refill (a prescription).
• To happen again; recur.
• To echo the words of (a person).
• To strike the hours, as a watch does.
• To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
• To repay or refund (an excess received).
• To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
• To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.

Noun

• An iteration; a repetition.
• A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
• A refill of a prescription.
• A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
• A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

Origin

• From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repeto, from the prefix re- + peto.