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recapitulation
[ree-kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuhn]
noun
the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
a brief review or summary, as of a speech.
Biology.the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage.
Music.the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement.
recapitulation
/ ˌːəˌɪʊˈɪʃə /
noun
the act of recapitulating, esp summing up, as at the end of a speech
Also called: palingenesis.biology the apparent repetition in the embryonic development of an animal of the changes that occurred during its evolutionary history Compare caenogenesis
music the repeating of earlier themes, esp when forming the final section of a movement in sonata form
Other 51Թ Forms
- recapitulative adjective
- recapitulatory adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of recapitulation1
Example Sentences
And the judge said the appeal bid did not add to the claim but was a "recapitulation of the case" that had previously been brought.
Schaffer: Once we knew we were going to do this recapitulation of the “Seinfeld” finale, the question was how far do we take it?
Fani Willis unveiled Monday night offers a panoramic recapitulation of the misdeeds that former President Trump and his confederates allegedly perpetrated to unlawfully retain power in the months after the 2020 election.
Taking a page from the vacation school example, we should imagine it as a respite from the academic year rather than simply a recapitulation or extension of it.
But all but the most uninformed readers are in for quite a bit of recapitulation, often of facts that are already canonical.
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