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RECAPITULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("recapitulation" is a kind of...):
composing; composition (musical creation)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recapitulation" is a kind of...):
capitulation (a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recapitulation"):
epanodos (recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order))
Derivation:
recapitulate (summarize briefly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recapitulation" is a kind of...):
section; subdivision (a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical))
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Derivation:
recapitulate (repeat an earlier theme of a composition)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
Synonyms:
palingenesis; recapitulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("recapitulation" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Derivation:
recapitulate (repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life)
