Recapitulation

What do we mean by recapitulation?

The act or process of recapitulating. noun

A summary or concise review. noun

Restatement or reworking of the exposition in the tonic, constituting the third and final section of the typical sonata form. noun

In biology, the appearance in a developing organism of stages that are considered to recapitulate, or repeat in brief stages, the life-history of ancestors, or to resemble adult ancestors. See recapitulation doctrine. noun

In music, the third division of a movement in sonata form, in which the subjects are taken up afresh and both in the original key. Also called reprise. noun

The act or process of recapitulating. noun

In rhetoric, a summary or concise statement or enumeration of the principal points or facts in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay. Also anacephalæosis, enumeration. See epanodos. noun

The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay. noun

That process of development of the individual organism from the embryonic stage onward, which displays a parallel between the development of an individual animal (ontogeny) and the historical evolution of the species (phylogeny). Some authors recognize two types of recapitulation, palingenesis, in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced during development; and cenogenesis (kenogenesis or coenogenesis), the mode of individual development in which alterations in the development process have changed the original process of recapitulation and obscured the evolutionary pathway. noun

A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book. noun

The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section. noun

The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species. noun

The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ. noun

Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species noun

(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated noun

(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) noun

A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion noun

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

The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.

The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.

The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.

Words that are spelled similarly to recapitulation:
recapitulation, capitulation, recapitulator, recapitulating, recapitulative, recapitulations.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word recapitulation:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe recapitulation:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective recapitulation:
effect, form.

Words that sound like recapitulation:
recapitulation, recapitulating, recapitulate, recapitulates, recapitalization, capitulation, decapsulation, circumvolution, stipulation, stridulation.