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Recapitulation

//ɹiː.kəˌpɪ.t͡ʃəˈleɪ.ʃ(ə)n// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book. countable, uncountable

    "The dolorous effects of the second world war on train services, and its protracted legacies of over-age equipment and shortages of material for replacement, are too fresh in memory to require recapitulation here; […]."

  2. 2
    (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) wordnet
  3. 3
    The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section. countable, uncountable

    "In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune."

  4. 4
    a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion wordnet
  5. 5
    The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated wordnet
  2. 7
    The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ. countable, uncountable

    "one would expect God's final purpose to be expressed in his created world, since the doctrine of recapitulation showed that this is where his plans had worked out before."

  3. 8
    emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species wordnet

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman recapitulaciun et al., Middle French recapitulacion et al., or their source, from Late Latin recapitulatio (“summing up, summary”), from the participle stem of recapitulare (“recapitulate”), from re- + capitulum (“chapter, section”), diminutive of caput (“head”).

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