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repeater

noun as in convict

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If those tweaks don’t work, switching to a mesh network system or buying a repeater can also improve your WiFi speed.

Because electrical and optical signals gradually dissipate as they pass through cables, repeaters that read the signal and retransmit it are added at regular intervals to ensure the signals don’t lose strength or fidelity.

Now though, researchers from the the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Spain have demonstrated a new kind of quantum memory that could help build repeaters that can greatly extend the range of quantum networks.

The new setup, reported in Nature, has a number of characteristics that bring it far closer to a practical quantum repeater.

If each repeater is able to store an entanglement for a short while, it gives you time to link all stages of the network together.

He quickly invented the automatic repeater to transfer messages from one to another wire.

That splendid repeater you used to strike in the library whenever we said it was time for us to go into church.

She couldn't 'see' anything for herself, but she got a glimpse of my repeater in the pocket of a red waistcoat.

I left the repeater under my pillow when I got up in the middle of the night to go on deck, thinking I heard a cry.

I put in about three shots to your one, owing to my rifle being a repeater, while you must load yours at each shot.

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to repeater, such as: captive, felon, prisoner, con, culprit, and jailbird.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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