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REPEATING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of doing or performing again

Synonyms:

repeating; repetition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb repeat

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 Context examples: 

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

(Histone H1, NCI Thesaurus)

“Come here!” said the man with the wooden leg, repeating the gesture.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Dashwood attended them down stairs, was introduced to Mrs. Jennings at the door of her carriage, and repeating his hope of being able to call on them the next day, took leave.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

To this question his daughter replied only with a laugh; and as it had been asked without the least suspicion, she was not distressed by his repeating it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“In four rounds!” he kept repeating in a sort of an ecstasy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Elton seemed very properly struck and delighted by the idea, and was repeating, No husbands and wives in the case at present indeed, as you observe.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Long she argued it with him, but the argument was one-sided, for he contented himself with repeating again and again, "He killed Dutchy and Harkey."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Heparan Sulfate Biosynthesis consists of cellular enzymatic reactions that produce heparan sulfate, a glycosaminoglycan of repeating disaccharide units, in most cell plasma membranes.

(Heparan Sulfate Biosynthesis, NCI Thesaurus)

Theresa kept on repeating our story to her mistress, while I swarmed up and cut the rope of the bell.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear polysaccharide chains consisting of repeating disaccharide units and form proteoglycans by covalently attaching to their core proteins.

(Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis Pathway - Chondroitin Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)