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recapitulation
[ ree-kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuhn ]
noun
- the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- a brief review or summary, as of a speech.
- Biology. the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage.
- Music. the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement.
recapitulation
/ ˌːəˌɪʊˈɪʃə /
noun
- the act of recapitulating, esp summing up, as at the end of a speech
- Also calledpalingenesis 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
Other yvlog Forms
- c·辱u·t ··辱···ٴ· [ree-k, uh, -, pich, -, uh, -l, uh, -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of recapitulation1
Example Sentences
And the judge said the appeal bid did not add to the claim but was a "recapitulation of the case" that had previously been brought.
Schaffer: Once we knew we were going to do this recapitulation of the “Seinfeld” finale, the question was how far do we take it?
Fani Willis unveiled Monday night offers a panoramic recapitulation of the misdeeds that former President Trump and his confederates allegedly perpetrated to unlawfully retain power in the months after the 2020 election.
Taking a page from the vacation school example, we should imagine it as a respite from the academic year rather than simply a recapitulation or extension of it.
But all but the most uninformed readers are in for quite a bit of recapitulation, often of facts that are already canonical.
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