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repeatable, a.|rɪˈpiːtəb(ə)l|
[f. repeat v. + -able.]
Capable of being repeated. spec. of a scientific experiment or result.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) III. 455 Two witnesses and the causes of untrustworthiness repeatable upon each. 1844Fraser's Mag. XXIX. 68 Few see events..of a more interesting or repeatable description. 1879Meredith Egoist xxxvii, To make his home a fountain of repeatable wit. 1935[see operation 5 a]. 1949Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. CXIII. 396 The reason why so many experiments are approximately repeatable is that we take infinite pains to select them from the others. 1955R. O. Kapp Facts & Faith 45 The precision with which experiments are repeatable does not prove that it is in the nature of matter to behave in an orderly manner but only that it is in the nature of scientists to do so. 1969Listener 6 Mar. 301/1 An American botanist..and his wife..threw up their careers to devote themselves to evolving a repeatable experiment which could incontrovertibly demonstrate ESP. 1977Theology LXXX. 196 We are here neither in the world of sheer unaccountable miracle nor in that of repeatable experiment. |