repeat

Everyday

1. To repeat is to do or say something again. tree →
2. To repeat after someone is to say the same words they said. tree →
3. A repeat is a TV show shown again. tree →
4. A pattern that repeats has the same part again and again. tree →
5. A repeating decimal has digits that go on again forever, like 0.333... tree →

In the lessons

In school maths: a pattern that repeats (the repeating part, find the 10th or 20th item using the remainder); doing something again a number of times; repeated addition is multiplication. In music and literacy: a repeat sign, a chorus that repeats. In everyday life: «Could you repeat that, please?». Phrases: «repeat after me», «repeat yourself», «on repeat».

Examples

• The pattern repeats every 3 beads. tree →
• Repeat the step 4 times. tree →
• What is the 10th shape if the pattern repeats? tree →
• She repeats the song twice. tree →
• Could you repeat the question, please? tree →
• Repeat after me: «Two times three is six». tree →
• Multiplication is repeated addition: 4 + 4 + 4 = 3 × 4. tree →
• I played my favourite song on repeat. tree →
• Little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer. tree →

Note

«Repeat again» says the same thing twice; just «repeat». Noun «repetition». Maths: a repeating pattern: use the remainder after dividing by the pattern length. Trap: «repeat twice» can mean do it 2 more times (3 in all) — read carefully.

In Jewish tradition

In school maths: a pattern that repeats (the repeating part, find the 10th or 20th item using the remainder); doing something again a number of times; repeated addition is multiplication. In music and literacy: a repeat sign, a chorus that repeats. In everyday life: «Could you repeat that, please?». Phrases: «repeat after me», «repeat yourself», «on repeat».

Examples

• twenty-two letters, the Sefer Yetzirah demonstrates by permu- tations in whicli letters never repeat themselves but only change their places. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →

Note

«Repeat again» says the same thing twice; just «repeat». Noun «repetition». Maths: a repeating pattern: use the remainder after dividing by the pattern length. Trap: «repeat twice» can mean do it 2 more times (3 in all) — read carefully.