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4. (Obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

Re`per*cuss"ive (-k?s"?v), a. [Cf. F. répercussif.]

1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound.

W. Pattison.

2. Repellent. [Obs.] "Blood is stanched by astringent and repercussive medicines." Bacon.

3. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. "Rages loud the repercussive roar." Thomson.

Re`per*cuss"ive, n. A repellent. [Obs.] Bacon.

Rep`er*ti"tious (r?p`?r-t?sh"?s), a. [L. reperticius. See Repertory.] Found; gained by finding. [Obs.]

||Ré`per`toire" (F. r`pâr`twär"; E. rp"r*twär), n. [F. See Repertory.] ||A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a ||person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.

Rep"er*to*ry (r?p"?r-t?-r?), n. [L. repertorium, fr. reperire to find again; pref. re- re + parire, parere, to bring forth, procure: cf. F. répertoire. Cf. Parent.]

1. A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.

2. A treasury; a magazine; a storehouse.

3. Same as Répertoire.

Re`pe*rus"al (r?`p?-r?z"al), n. A second or repeated perusal.

Re`pe*ruse" (-r?z"), v. t. To peruse again. Ld. Lytton.

Rep`e*tend (r?p`?-t?nd"), n. [L. repetendus to be repeated, fr. repetere to repeat.] (Math.) 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&2dot;8&3dot;), the repetend is 283.

Rep`e*ti"tion (rp`-tsh"n), n. [L. repetitio: cf. F. répétition. See Repeat.] 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition.

Shak.

2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.

3. (Mus.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.

4. (Rhet.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.

5. (Astron. & Surv.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.

Syn. -- Iteration; rehearsal. See Tautology.

{ Rep`e*ti"tion*al (-al). Rep`e*ti"tion*a*ry (-?-r?) }, a. Of the nature of, or containing, repetition. [R.]

Rep`e*ti"tion*er (-?r), n. One who repeats. [Obs.]

Rep`e*ti"tious (-t?sh"?s), a. Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight.