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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Repetend

/(r?p`?-t?nd")/ · Rep·e·tend · IPA
01 n. That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures;…
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    That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7<2dot/8<3dot/), the repetend is 283.(Math.)