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One who or that which repeats.
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(education) A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
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(medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
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(marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
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(US) One who votes more than once at an election.
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(ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
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(firearms, dated) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
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(telegraphy) A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
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(electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
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(horology) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
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(nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
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(nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
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(mathematics) A repeating decimal.
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(textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.