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One unit of effort, infinitely repeatable, until a body changes or a story improves.
means One complete performance of an exercise, or, by extension, a track record or reputation built up over time through repeated acts.
from A 20th-century clipping of 'repetition,' from Latin repetitio ('a repeating'), built from re- ('again') plus petere ('to seek, aim at'). The gym sense (one rep, two reps) and the slang sense ('rep' as in reputation, short for 'reputation' itself) grew up side by side — both are just language doing what reps do: the same small unit, performed again and again until it adds up to something.
- gym meaning
- Single complete movement, the atom of gains
- slang meaning
- Reputation, the thing one bad post destroys instantly
- business meaning
- Sales representative, paid to make strangers say yes
- shared logic
- All three compound quietly then show up suddenly