recapitulation (ˌriːkəˌpɪtjʊˈleɪʃən
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Definitions
noun
- the act of recapitulating, esp summing up, as at the end of a speech
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
Usage examples
What we got were litanies, recapitulation of history as they passionately nursed and understood it.
Outlook India (2004)And, like any recapitulation in a sonata structure, the finale recalls, in transformed state, the first movement's opening.
Times, Sunday Times (2001)The nature of that limitation clarifies women's difficult relationship to literary tradition, which needs some recapitulation here.
, Feminism and Poetry (1987)