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repetitive

/ri-pet-i-tiv/US // rɪˈpɛt ɪ tɪv //UK // (rɪˈpɛtɪtɪv) //

重复的,重复性的,重复性,重复

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or characterized by repetition.

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Examples

  • It was there that Hollerith got the idea to mechanize the repetitive tabulations involved in census work.

  • That’s because the immutability of rituals — their fixed and often repetitive nature — is core to their definition, Schroeder and others say.

  • Patients either speak less or say less when they speak, using vague, repetitive, stereotypical phrases.

  • Scientists have been slowly filling in the gaps, but certain portions that feature repetitive sequences going on for millions of base pairs have long been seen as intractable.

  • When applied to these highly repetitive sections it becomes almost impossible to distinguish the pieces, so putting them back together in the right order is extremely difficult.

  • Even extreme beauty — and even the best of bodies and most involving pictures of them — can become repetitive.

  • What was once sexy and mildly transgressive—the perfect antidote to Twilight—devolved into a repetitive, unimaginative mess.

  • Migrant shipwrecks and refugee death stories become repetitive quickly.

  • There are videos and performances that often deal with representations of the human body through repetitive tasks.

  • But apparently there are scoops of great magnitude to be gleaned from these repetitive pictures.

  • We have filled the foreground in recent years with new automatic machines, new subdivisions of repetitive process.

  • It was no pretentious group of houses, nor was it a repetitive design out of some subdividing contractor's greedy mind.

  • We learn little or nothing from habit excepting repetitive imitation.

  • Others have the repetitive pattern of bushes, flowers, or the pear, on a field of rich colour.

  • The thing to do was to make the surface thoughts automatically repetitive.