repeatability

Variant of repeat

transitive verb

  1. to say or utter again; reiterate: to repeat a remark
  2. to say over or through; recite (a poem, etc.)
  3. to say (something) as said by someone else
  4. to tell to someone else: to repeat a secret
    1. to do or make again; do over again: to repeat a test
    2. to make happen again or undergo again: to repeat an adventure
  5. to say again what has been said before by (oneself)
  6. to present (itself or themselves) again

Origin: ME repeten < OFr repeter < L repetere < re-, again + petere, to demand, rush at, fall: see feather

intransitive verb

  1. to say or do again what has been said or done before
  2. to recur: experiences repeat
  3. to continue to be tasted, as because of belching: often with on: foods that repeat on one
  4. ☆ to vote (illegally) more than once in the same election

noun

  1. the act of doing or saying again; repetition
    1. anything said, done, or occurring again
    2. a rebroadcast of a radio or television program
  2. Music
    1. a passage repeated in playing
    2. either of two signs used to mark the end (:∥) and, when appropriate, the beginning (∥:) of such a passage

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