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recapitulation

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: recapitulation

1
 n
a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
2
 n
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
3
 n
(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: recapitulation
1

n a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion

Synonyms:
recap, review
Types:
epanodos
recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order)
Type of:
capitulation
a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic
2

n emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

Synonyms:
palingenesis
Antonyms:
caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis
introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
Type 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
3

n (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)

Type of:
composing, composition
musical creation

n (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

Type of:
section, subdivision
a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
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