Repetition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
  • n. A recitation or recital, especially of prepared or memorized material.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
  • n. : The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep. A group of repetitions is a set.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
  • n. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
  • n. The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
  • n. Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
  • n. The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of repeating, in any sense; iteration of the same act, word, sound, or idea.
  • n. 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.
  • n. That which is repeated.
  • n. Remembrance; recollection.
  • n. In Scots law, repayment of money erroneously paid.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Same as repeating action (which see, under repeat).
  • n. in mathematics, a partition in which a number occurs r times. Thus, 2 + 2 + 2 + 5 is a repetition of 3.
  • n. Synonyms and See recapitulate and pleonasm.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an event that repeats
  • n. the act of doing or performing again
  • n. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
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