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RepeaterIn telecommunication, the term repeater has the following meanings:1. An analog device that amplifies an input signal regardless of its nature, i.e., analog or digital. 2. A digital device that amplifies, reshapes, retimes, or performs a combination of any of these functions on a digital input signal for retransmission. Note: The term "repeater" originated with telegraphy and referred to an electromechanical device used to regenerate telegraph signals. Use of the term has continued in telephony and data communications. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 This
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After the wide, deserted stretches of open veldt, the roar of
Piccadilly. The noise stunned him; the hurrying crowd filled him
faithful Kruger Bobs. Still clinging to that faithful arm, he came
Weldon once more, honorably discharged from the South African Light
smile; but Weldon had scarcely heeded the words which had been
wheels of his brain were moving slowly and ever more slowly. His
to go to his banker and to the office of the steamship company. Once
rest to the ship's doctor and to Fate.
Even in the multitude of strangers who had passed through Cape Town,
with a word of congratulation on his record in the field. At the
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That night, the Dents dined alone. Over the roast, Mr. Dent looked
you are constantly running up against the most impossible people."
was Mr. Weldon."
The smile died from her lips. Nevertheless, she asked, with a forced
fever. I was in the bank, and I heard some one speak his name; but I
The man is a wreck. He looked sixty years old, as he went crawling
Weldon."
A bit of bread lay by Ethel's plate. For an instant, her finger tips
her hand to her throat. "Dear me! Have I lost my diamond pin?" she
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Mrs. Dent broke the pause.
"Where was Mr. Weldon going?"
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