REPEATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repeating mean? 

• REPEATING (noun)
  The noun REPEATING has 1 sense:

1. the act of doing or performing again

  Familiarity information: REPEATING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPEATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of doing or performing again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

repeating; repetition

Hypernyms ("repeating" is a kind of...):

continuance; continuation (the act of continuing an activity without interruption)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repeating"):

echolalia ((psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia))

iteration (doing or saying again; a repeated performance)

redundancy (repetition of an act needlessly)

reduplication; reiteration (the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof))

copying (an act of copying)

action replay; instant replay; replay (the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape)

renewal (the act of renewing)

replication (the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion)

Derivation:

repeat (make or do or perform again)

 Context examples 

An integer that identifies the particular occurrence of a repeating activity.

(Performed Activity Repetition Number, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication or description that an event is part of a regularly repeating sequence.

(Pattern of Event, NCI Thesaurus)

She was very much obliged to him, but declined it all, repeating her conviction, that the rain would come to nothing at present, and adding, I am only waiting for Mr Elliot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

AT—why he is repeating it for the third time.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After repeating this, Edmund was so much affected that Fanny, watching him with silent, but most tender concern, was almost sorry that the subject had been entered on at all.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is composed of repeating units of 20-30 amino acid stretches that are rich in leucine residues.

(Leucine-Rich Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

Repeating nucleosome units contain two molecules each of Histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 that form an octamer complex around which approximately 146 base pairs of DNA is wrapped.

(Histone H2B, NCI Thesaurus)

A possibly-repeating collection of consecutive days that define the length of a Study Segment

(Clinical Trial Period, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes exostosin-like 1 protein, is involved in the synthesis of the repeating disaccharide region of heparin/heparin sulfate.

(EXTL1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

When I had performed these wonders, they shouted for joy, and danced upon my breast, repeating several times as they did at first, Hekinah degul.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)