Crossword-Solution: REPETEND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Repetend | n. | That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REPETEND | anagram | REPENTED |
We have 3 clues for the answer “REPETEND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Circulating decimal. | 1 answer |
| Number in a repeating decimal. | 1 answer |
| Refrain | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with REPETEND (5)
True, America is free; but in order to establish tradition some one must be a repetend—a repeating decimal.
Artifice and ballad preciosity have been cultivated more sedulously in the south, with a learned use of the repetend, archaism of style, and imitation of the quaint mediaeval habit of mind.
She also employed what I term the Repetend, in the use of which Poe has excelled all poets since Coleridge thus revived it: "O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware." Poe created the fifth line of his stanza for the magic of the repetend.
REFRAIN, a line or part of a line repeated according to the metrical pattern, 184 f.; the term _repetend_ is occasionally used.
Circulating, or Circulatory, decimal, a decimal fraction in which the same figure, or set of figures, is constantly repeated; as, 0.354354354; -- called also recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1943–1992).