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  • repatronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • repeat loop — (programming)   (Or "do loop") A loop construct found in many procedural languages which repeatedly executes some instructions while a condition is true. Repeat loops are found in Perl, Pascal, BASIC and C. The initial keyword may be "repeat" or "do" and the condition may be introduced with a "while" or "until" keyword. In constrast to a while loop, the "loop body" is executed once before the condition is tested. This is useful when the condition depends on the action of the loop body. In the following BASIC loop "Hello" is printed once despite the fact that the condition is false; i = 2 repeat print "Hello" i = i+1 until i>0 See also while loop and for loop.
  • repeat mark — a sign on a piece of music instructing the player to replay a certain passage or section
  • repentantly — repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance.
  • repertorial — a type of theatrical presentation in which a company presents several works regularly or in alternate sequence in one season.
  • replacement — the act of replacing.
  • replication — a reply; answer.
  • replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
  • report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
  • report card — a written report containing an evaluation of a pupil's scholarship and behavior, sent periodically to the pupil's parents or guardian, usually on a card containing marks and comments together with a record of attendance.
  • reportorial — of or relating to a reporter.
  • reprivatize — to restore to private control; remove from governmental jurisdiction.
  • reprobation — disapproval, condemnation, or censure.
  • reprobative — reprobating; expressing reprobation.
  • reptilianly — in the manner of a reptilian
  • repudiation — the act of repudiating.
  • repudiative — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
  • repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
  • respectable — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
  • respectably — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
  • respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
  • respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
  • retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
  • retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
  • retired pay — retirement pay; pension
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
  • robot plane — an unmanned plane
  • rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
  • sample rate — (digital signal processing)   The number of times an analog signal is measured (sampled) per second. The unit of sample rate is "samples per second". This is often expressed in kiloHertz (kHz). For example, "CD quality" sound has a sample rate of 44 kHz. Compare data rate. See Nyquist frequency.
  • sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
  • scarlet cup — a small, fleshy, saucer-shaped fungus, Sarcoscypha coccinea, of the family Sarcoscyphaceae, marked by a scarlet inner surface and white exterior, seen on fallen branches in the spring.
  • scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
  • scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
  • scrap metal — discarded metal
  • screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
  • sea serpent — an enormous, imaginary, snakelike or dragonlike marine animal.
  • semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
  • sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
  • septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
  • serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
  • sex partner — a person with whom you have had sex
  • sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
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