recapitulation
[ ree-kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuh n ]
/ ˌri kəˌpɪtʃ əˈleɪ ʃən /
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.
Origin of recapitulation
1350–1400; Middle English
recapitulacioun < Late Latin
recapitulātiōn- (stem of
recapitulātiō), equivalent to
recapitulāt(us) (see
recapitulate) +
-iōn-
-ion
OTHER WORDS FROM recapitulation
re·ca·pit·u·la·tive, re·ca·pit·u·la·to·ry [ree-kuh-pich-uh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] /ˌri kəˈpɪtʃ ə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjectiveWords nearby recapitulation
recant,
recap,
recapitalization,
recapitalize,
recapitulate,
recapitulation,
recapitulation theory,
recaption,
recapture,
recarburize,
recast
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British Dictionary definitions for recapitulation
recapitulation
/ (ˌriːkəˌpɪtjʊˈleɪʃən) /
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