recapitulation

recapitulation
recapitulative, recapitulatory /ree'keuh pich"euh leuh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/, adj.
/ree'keuh pich'euh lay"sheuhn/, n.
1. the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
2. a brief review or summary, as of a speech.
3. Biol. the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage.
4. Music. the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement.
[1350-1400; ME recapitulacioun < LL recapitulation- (s. of recapitulatio), equiv. to recapitulat(us) (see RECAPITULATE) + -ion- -ION]

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  • récapitulation — [ rekapitylasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1245; lat. recapitulatio 1 ♦ Répétition, reprise point par point. Faire la récapitulation d un compte. « elle fit une courte récapitulation de sa vie entière » (Rousseau). Écrit qui récapitule. ⇒ abrégé, sommaire. 2 ♦… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Recapitulation — Re ca*pit u*la tion (r[=e] k[.a]*p[i^]t [ u]*l[=a] sh[u^]n), n. [LL. recapitulatio: cf. F. recapitulation.] 1. The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • recapitulation — Recapitulation. s. f. v. Repetition sommaire de ce qui a déja esté dit. Il fit une courte recapitulation de tout ce qu il avoit dit …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • recapitulation — [rē΄kəpich΄ə lā′shən] n. [ME recapitalacion < MFr or LL: MFr recapitulation < LL recapitulatio] 1. the act of recapitulating 2. a summary, or brief restatement 3. PALINGENESIS (sense 3) 4. Music the section of a composition which restates… …   English World dictionary

  • recapitulation — recapitulation. См. рекапитуляция. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • Recapitulation — (v. lat., bei den Griechen Anakephalaiosis), 1) eine rhetorische Figur, die summarische Wiederholung od. kurze Zusammenfassung der Hauptpunkte einer Rede; 2) die Wiederholung einzelner Rechnungssummen, um dieselben in eine Hauptsumme zu bringen.… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Recapitulation — Recapitulation, lat. deutsch, griech. Anakephaläosis, in der Rhetorik die gedrängte Wiederholung des Redeinhalts; im Rechnungswesen übersichtliche Zusammenstellung der Rechnungstitel …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • recapitulation — index account (report), capsule, compendium, digest, hornbook, narration, outline (synopsis) …   Law dictionary

  • recapitulation — (n.) late 14c., a summarizing, from O.Fr. recapitulacion (13c.), from L.L. recapitulationem (nom. recapitulatio), noun of action from pp. stem of recapitulare go over the main points of a thing again, lit. restate by heads or chapters, from re… …   Etymology dictionary

  • recapitulation — Recapitulation, Anacephalaeosis, Epilogus, Enumeratio, Conclusio, Peroratio …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • recapitulation — ► NOUN 1) an act or instance of recapitulating. 2) Music a part of a movement in which themes from the exposition are restated …   English terms dictionary

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