Definition of REPEATING

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Recent Examples on the Web The arms are cut with little repeating windows that allow the drug to gradually detach itself from the surrounding polymer matrix. — Wired, "A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming—Here's How It Works," 4 Dec. 2019 Wilczek has previously coined terms like axions, anyons (quasiparticles that may be useful for quantum computing) and time crystals (structures that move in regular and repeating patterns without using energy). — Quanta Magazine, "‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter," 25 Sep. 2018

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8 Dec 2019

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“Repeating.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repeating. Accessed 11 December 2019.