repeating

Thân thiện

The teacher writes a repeating pattern on the board.

Definition

Noun: 1. The act of doing or performing again: The action of saying, doing, or occurring for a second or further time; repetition.

Usage

The word "repeating" functions as a noun (gerund) to describe the process or instance of repetition itself. It is often used in formal or descriptive contexts to discuss cyclical actions, patterns, or recurring events.

Examples

• The repeating of the chorus makes the song easy to remember.
• His constant repeating of the same story became tiresome.
• The experiment requires the repeating of the procedure three times for accuracy.
• We observed the repeating of a historical pattern in the data.

Advanced Usage

• "repeating of": This common collocation is used to specify what is being repeated.
  • The repeating of the mistake led to his dismissal.
• In technical contexts, "repeating" can describe mechanisms or patterns that recur, such as a "repeating decimal" in mathematics or a "repeating rifle" in firearms (note: these are compound nouns where "repeating" acts as an adjective).

Variants and Related Words

• Repeat (verb): To say or do something again.
  • Please repeat the question.
• Repetition (noun): The act or an instance of repeating; a thing repeated. This is a more common synonym for "repeating" as a noun.
  • Learning a language requires a lot of repetition.
• Repetitive (adjective): Involving or characterized by repetition, often to a tedious degree.
  • The work was very repetitive.

Synonyms

• Repetition
• Reiteration
• Recurrence
• Iteration

Related Phrases

• Repeating oneself: The act of saying the same thing again.
  • I apologize for repeating myself, but this point is crucial.
• History repeating itself: An idiom meaning that events or patterns from the past are occurring again in the present.
  • The economic crisis felt like history repeating itself.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the act of doing or performing again

Từ đồng nghĩa

• repetition