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# repeating

verb (repeat, repeats, repeated, repeating); adjective (repeating)

«repeating» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Repeating means doing or saying something again and again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#m1)
2. A repeating pattern is one that goes over and over in the same order. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#m2)
3. A repeating decimal has digits that go on again forever, like 0.333… [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#m3)

### In the lessons

a pattern that comes again in the same order; find what comes at a far place by the length of the pattern; in maths: repeating patterns of shapes, colours or numbers; in music: a repeating chorus; in science: the seasons and day and night repeat in a cycle; in learning: repeating helps you remember

### Examples

- The pattern red, blue, green keeps repeating. What is the 10th colour? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x1)
- The repeating part has 4 beads. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x2)
- Write the repeating rule: 2, 5, 2, 5 … [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x3)
- She is repeating the song 3 times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x4)
- Repeating your spellings helps you learn them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x5)
- The wallpaper has a repeating pattern of birds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x6)
- 1 ÷ 3 = 0.333…, a repeating decimal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x7)
- Day and night keep repeating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x8)
- Stop repeating everything I say! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x9)

### Note

Points to a cycle: the nth item = the item at the remainder of n ÷ pattern length (10 ÷ 3 remainder 1 → red). Trap: a remainder of 0 means the last item of the pattern, not the first. Noun: repetition.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «repeating» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«repeating» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/repeating.html) on Mova free.