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From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).

transitive To do or say again (and again). The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
transitive To refill (a prescription).
intransitive To happen again; recur. A day like that has not yet repeated itself.
transitive To echo the words of (a person). Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways.
intransitive To strike the hours, as a watch does.
obsolete To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. He[…] repeats the danger of the burning town.
Scotland 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. Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.

An iteration; a repetition. We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
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.