Repetition

What do we mean by repetition?

The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated. noun

A recitation or recital, especially of prepared or memorized material. noun

The act of repeating, in any sense; iteration of the same act, word, sound, or idea. noun

Ye haue another sort of repetition when in one verse or clause of a verse ye iterate one word without any intermission, as thus: It was Maryne, Maryne that wrought mine woe. noun

That which is repeated. noun

Remembrance; recollection. noun

In Scots law, repayment of money erroneously paid. noun

Specifically, in music, the rapid reiteration or repercussion of a tone or chord, so as to produce a sustained effect, as upon the pianoforte and other stringed instruments. noun

Same as repeating action (which see, under repeat). noun

In mathematics, a partition in which a number occurs r times. Thus, 2 + 2 + 2 + 5 is a repetition of 3. noun

Synonyms and See recapitulate and pleonasm. noun

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. noun

Recital from memory; rehearsal. noun

The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note. noun

Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience. noun

The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument. noun

The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated. noun

: The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep. A group of repetitions is a set. noun

An event that repeats noun

The act of doing or performing again noun

The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.

: The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.

Repetition repetition repetition. Urban Dictionary

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Answering a question with a question. Devolution. A refusal to continue the leavening when told to. Can repetition save me? Sucks the fun out of everything. A barking dog. A missed appointment. A sentence on the page and in a four by six cell. Black coffee mornings. Practice makes perfect. Heraclitus says that “you can never step into the same river twice.” Process. A simultaneous wandering toward the unreachable center. Waking up next to the same person everyday. Safety. A question. Spiraling into Nietzsche’s eternal return. Goodbye. Hello. Urban Dictionary

When something is done repeatedly, sometimes to an annoying or unnecessary point. Urban Dictionary

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Well, you see, repetition is when you use lots of repetition within something by constantly repeating repetition, it's not rare to see repetition, really, and keeping repetition within repetition of your limits, the repetition of your reputation is repetitively good. What the hell am I doing with my life. Urban Dictionary

Adj. see repetitive Urban Dictionary

Repetition Urban Dictionary

The act of repeating something. Can be used on the internet to take someone to a link to the definition, where it will be done over and over and over again, like this. Repetition Urban Dictionary

Persistently continual Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to repetition:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word repetition:
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Words that rhyme with repetition:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe repetition:
constant, frequent, mere, endless, much, exact, simple, unnecessary, monotonous, mechanical, needless, continual, verbal, continuous, regular, rhythmic, continued, sheer, daily, third, vain, incremental, tedious, further, incessant, useless, immediate, perpetual, literal, infinite, excessive, eternal, compulsive, threefold, emphatic, periodic, tiresome, meaningless, rapid, like, persistent, sufficient, indefinite, rote, insistent, oral, partial, dull, wearisome, undue, triple, occasional, lexical, automatic, varied, verbatim, word, deliberate, pure, less, identical, cyclical, fold, ceaseless, successive, cyclic, mindless, obsessive, non, unconscious, extensive, sequential, sound, careful.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective repetition:
compulsion, rate, compulsions.

Words that sound like repetition:
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