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Repetition

//ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated. countable, uncountable

    "How we hope and believe each day will be our last of anxious waiting! The post comes in, and there is no letter for us. How bitter is the disappointment! and on every repetition it grows more acute."

  2. 2
    the act of doing or performing again wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device wordnet
  5. 5
    an event that repeats wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To petition again.

    "The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio. By surface analysis, repeat + -ition.

Etymology 2

From re- + petition.

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