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; […].
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Recapitulation
//ɹiː.kəˌpɪ.t͡ʃəˈleɪ.ʃ(ə)n//
Synonyms for "recapitulation" (79 found)
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30 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- резюме noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Catalan
1 entries- recapitulació noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 再現部 /再现部 noun (music: third major part of a movement in sonata form)
- 概括 noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Czech
1 entries- rekapitulace noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Dutch
1 entries- recapitulatie noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Finnish
2 entries- kertausjakso noun (music: third major part of a movement in sonata form)
- yhteenveto noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
French
2 entries- récapitulation noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
- réexposition noun (music: third major part of a movement in sonata form)
German
2 entries- Rekapitulation noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
- Reprise noun (music: third major part of a movement in sonata form)
Greek
1 entries- ανακεφαλαίωση noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Indonesian
3 entries- ikhtisar noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
- rekapitulasi noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
- ringkasan noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Irish
1 entries- achoimriú noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Italian
1 entries- ricapitolazione noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Japanese
1 entries- 要約 noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Korean
1 entries- 개요 noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Latin
1 entries- recapitulatio noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Polish
1 entries- streszczenie noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Portuguese
1 entries- recapitulação noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Russian
1 entries- суммирование noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ath-innse noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Spanish
2 entries- recapitulación noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
- reexposición noun (music: third major part of a movement in sonata form)
Swedish
3 entries- rekapitulation noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
- rekapitulering noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
- sammanfattning noun (subsequent enumeration of the major points)
Sample sentences
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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.
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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.
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