{
  "id": "repeats.action",
  "term": "repeats",
  "sense": "action",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 1,
  "arena": "verb",
  "domain": "linguistics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to do a pattern again during time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the pattern does again then",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal duplication",
      "identical outcome",
      "reapplication of pattern"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, repeating its path for over 20 years.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The cicada Brood X emerges every 17 years in the eastern United States, repeating its life cycle.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Julian calendar repeated the leap year pattern every four years without exception for over 1,600 years.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "audio.auditory",
    "calendar.tool",
    "continue.action",
    "format.layout",
    "month.temporal",
    "often.temporal",
    "practice.skill",
    "print.material",
    "quote.writing",
    "regularity.pattern",
    "track.path",
    "training.skill",
    "usually.temporal",
    "week.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "repeat",
    "repeated",
    "repeating",
    "repeats"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-repeats.action"
}