Re-pēat'ing, p. a.

p. a. Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating fire-arm, which discharges several balls successively before reloading; a repeating watch, which repeats the striking of the hour at the touch of a spring, &c.

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