repetitor

noun

1. A private instructor in a repetitorium.

   There is probably not a class throughout the Russian Empire, there is certainly not a gymnasium or a real-school, in which a certain proportion of the pupils do not avail themselves of the services of a repetitor ; and in the case of the lower classes of some schools every second or third pupil does so.

2. Someone or something that repeats something.

   For the repetitor, its self-similarity ratio r is 1/3, identifying the subdivision of the original line into three pieces.

Where it comes from

Compare Latin repetitor (“a reclaimer”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry repetitor (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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