recapitulation
recapitulations
A recapitulation is a short summary. At the end of an hour-long speech, you should probably give a recapitulation if you want your audience to remember anything you’ve just said.
A recapitulation, or "recap," is a summary, review, or restatement. The purpose of a recapitulation is to remind your reader or audience of your main points. There's no new information in a recapitulation, just the same information in a smaller, more condensed form. The prefix re- is a signal that a recapitulation involves repeating something.
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a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
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types:
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epanodos
recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order)
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type of:
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capitulation
a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic
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epanodos
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emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
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synonyms:
palingenesis
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Antonyms:
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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)
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type of:
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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
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caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis
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(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
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type of:
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composing, composition
musical creation
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composing, composition
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(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
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type of:
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section, subdivision
a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
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section, subdivision
Vocabulary lists containing recapitulation
Groundhog Day is all about the future — whether there will be six more weeks of winter. It has also come to mean the endless repetition of the same day. Learn these words to describe things that keep repeating.
Darwin's groundbreaking and influential treatise on natural selection is a foundational text of evolutionary biology. Read the full text here.
A change in her family's fortunes brings Anne Elliot back into contact with Captain Frederick Wentworth, to whom she was once engaged. Read the full text here.
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