repro

Shortening.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːpɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹipɹoʊ/

repro (countable and uncountable, plural repros)

1. (countable) Clipping of reproduction.
2. (uncountable) Clipping of reprography.
   • 2014, Helmut Kipphan, Handbook of Print Media: Technologies and Production Methods, page 526:

     There has also been a shift in the places where repro is carried out.

3. (printing) The proof prepared in offset printing, with all elements positioned on the page.
   • 1982, David Gates, Graphic Design Studio Procedures, page 124:

     This reproduction proof, commonly called the repro, is sent to the designer for pasting on to the mechanical.

   • 2013, W. A. Evans, Advertising Today and Tomorrow:

     This will be a complete image of the advertisement, with all the elements correctly positioned and every word of copy printed and pasted down; such printed type (called 'repro') is obtained from a blockmaking and typesetting house by the typographer in exactly the same way that he will obtain the proof of a letterpress advertisement.

4. (informal, computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.
   • 2014, S, “Memory bloat in Celery worker (with minimal repro)”, in celery-users mailing list‎:

     Here's a simple repro that illustrates what I'm seeing...

repro (third-person singular simple present repros, present participle reproing, simple past and past participle reproed)

1. (informal, computing) To reproduce (a bug or problem).

   We cannot repro the bug in the latest version, so we are marking it as fixed.

• Perro, Roper, porer, prore, roper

From English repro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrepro/, [ˈre̞pro̞]
• Rhymes: -epro
• Syllabification^(key): rep‧ro

repro

1. (printing) prepress