repeater
中继器,复读机,中继站,复读器
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Definitions
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- : a person or thing that repeats.
- : a repeating firearm.
- : Horology. a timepiece, especially a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour.Compare clock watch.
- : Education. a pupil who repeats a course or group of courses that he or she has failed.
- : a person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
- : a person who has been convicted and sentenced for one crime, and later for another; recidivist.
- : Mathematics. a repeating decimal.
- : Telecommunications. a device capable of receiving one-way or two-way communications signals and delivering corresponding signals that are either amplified, reshaped, or both.
- : Navigation. gyro repeater.
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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.