Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An abbreviation (used in this work) of representing;
  • representative

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  • Basically, the repr function or the backticks are used to obtain a printable representation of the object. you can control what your objects return for the repr function by defining the __repr__ method in your class.

    A Byte of Python Swaroop, C. H. 2003

  • CREDIT CARD 1. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000–1887 1888; repr., Harmonds-worth, UK: Penguin Books, 1982, 118.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Sir Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell 1886; repr., Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Editions, 1996, 821.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Cassidy and Richard N. Ringler 1891; repr., New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, 4.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • II, ed. and trans. by J. C. Rolfe 1914; repr., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997, 127–29.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Joseph E. Holloway 1990; repr., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005, 410.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • George Herbert Mair 1560; repr., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909, 163.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • J. B. Spencer repr., London: Penguin Books, 1996, 142.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed. 2003; repr.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Some additional definitions of words and roots from specific branches of the Indo-European language family are from Carl Darling Buck, A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages: A Contribution to the History of Ideas 1949; repr., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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