"unrepeatable" meaning in English

See unrepeatable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more unrepeatable [comparative], most unrepeatable [superlative]
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  1. Unable to be repeated Translations (unable to be repeated): mahdoton toistaa (Finnish), toistamaton (Finnish), unwiederholbar (German), ανεπανάληπτος (anepanáliptos) (Greek), niepowtarzalny (Polish), irrepetible (Spanish)
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  2. (sciences) (of an experiment or procedure) That gives different results when repeated
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: unrepeatableness, unrepeatably

Alternative forms

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