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/ɹɪkɐpˈɪtʃʊlˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
How To Use recapitulation In A Sentence
- Chapter 9 provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
- A paraphrastical recapitulation of those things which are taught in the first four verses of the eighth chapter, and their connection with the preceding chapter. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
- According to Haeckel, the gastrula stage can be found in the development of all animals, and represents the recapitulation of the ancestral metazoan, the Gastraea, a diploblastic animal with a ciliated gut.
- This essay, like much of the book, is derivative, little more than a recapitulation of facts better explored by literary scholars.
- The theory of the heredity of somatogenic modifications by means of hormones harmonises with and goes far to explain the facts of metamorphosis and recapitulation in adaptive characters, and also the origin of secondary sexual characters, their correlation with the periodical changes in the gonads and the effects of castration. Hormones and Heredity
- Unfortunately, I will need to pass over much of Newman's history; for my purpose his hermeneutic is more important than his recapitulation of the Nicene controversy.
- When you've read all the notes and done all the research, what is there to discuss other than a 'recapitulation' and other miscellaneous et ceteras? Rouflaquette Diary Entry
- The narrative returns to human losses and the melancholiac recapitulations of grief.
- Frank Brennan draws his lecture to a close with a recapitulation of his main points.
- But the recapitulation is as gratuitous as it is insulting and untrue. Echoes of the Week
