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Repeating vs Repeatable - What's the difference?

repeating | repeatable |

As adjectives the difference between repeating and repeatable

is that repeating is that repeats; repetitive while repeatable is able to be repeated.

As a verb repeating

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun repeating

is repetition.

repeating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That repeats; repetitive.
  • Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.
  • (mathematics) Of a decimal: recurring.

    • Related terms

    * repeating back * repeating circle * repeating coil

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • repetition
  • * 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
    • What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings , cannot be conceiv'd

    repeatable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be repeated
  • (sciences, of an experiment or procedure) That gives the same results when repeated

    • Antonyms

    * unrepeatable