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 Mag·a·zine n.
 1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. “Armories and magazines.”
 2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
 3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
 4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
 5. A country or district especially rich in natural products.
 6.  A city viewed as a marketing center.
 7.  A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
 8.  A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
 Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine.
 Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing.
 Magazine stove, a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.


 Re·peat·ing, a. Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch.
 Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3.
 Repeating decimal Arith., a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
 Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; especially: (a) A form of firearm so constructed that by the action of the mechanism the charges are successively introduced from a chamber containing them into the breech of the barrel, and fired. (b) A form in which the charges are held in, and discharged from, a revolving chamber at the breech of the barrel. See Revolver, and Magazine gun, under Magazine.
 Repeating instruments Astron. & Surv., instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous, portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation.
 Repeating watch. See Repeater (a)

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