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Definition of Repetitive
1. Adjective. Repetitive and persistent. "The bluejay's insistent cry"
Similar to: Continual
Derivative terms: Insistence, Insistence, Repeat, Repeat, Repetitiveness
2. Adjective. Characterized by repetition. "Repetitive movement"
Similar to: Iterative, Reiterative
Derivative terms: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetitiousness, Repeat, Repeat, Repetitiveness
Antonyms: Nonrepetitive
Definition of Repetitive
1. a. Containing repetition; repeating.
Definition of Repetitive
1. Adjective. Happening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Repetitive
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Repetitive
1. Containing repetition, repetitions. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repetitive
Literary usage of Repetitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"Residual nitrogen times corresponding to the depth of the repetitive dive are
given in the body of the lower portion of the table. ..."
2. Handbook of Testing Materials: For the Constructor. Part I. Methods by Adolf Martens (1899)
"FRACTURES PRODUCED BY repetitive TESTS. homogeneous and free from stress, may
produce all the phenomena of conchoidal fractures in the shortest period of ..."
3. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The effect on the elastic limit of a single plastic deformation as distinguished
from repetitive deformations is isotropic, as great in compression as in ..."
4. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"Why Anisotropy after repetitive Plastic Deformation is Replaced by Isotropy after
a Single Deformation.—The effect on the elastic limit of a single plastic ..."
5. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"The repetitive plural (Tsimshian Group No. Ill), which recalls the repetitive
pictograph of Egyptian hieroglyphic, may originally have been a plural of ..."
6. Handbook of Testing Materials: For the Constructor. Part I. Methods by Adolf Martens (1899)
"(309.7 repetitive TESTS. located within the pot G (Fig. ... The correct name
is "repetitive tests," tests in which loads are applied repeatedly regardless ..."
7. Handbook of Testing Materials. For the Constructor. Part I. Methods by Adolf Martens (1899)
"Shape of Diagram at Yield-point, and Extensions of Parts of the Test-piece under
repetitive Loading ; v. Popular Experiences of Changes of Properties caused ..."
8. A Handbook of the Ila Language by Edwin William Smith (1907)
"The repetitive Species. Many verbs having the suffix -ulula, &c., ... These belong
to the repetitive species. The suffix corresponds to our prefix re-. ..."
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