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Webster 1913 Edition
Repetition
1.
The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in
repetition
. Shakespeare
2.
Recital from memory; rehearsal.
3.
(Mus.)
The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
4.
(Rhet.)
Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
5.
(Astron. & Surv.)
The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Syn. – Iteration; rehearsal. See
Tautology
. Webster 1828 Edition
Repetition
REPETI'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of doing or uttering a second time; iteration of the same act, or of the same words or sounds.2.
The act of reciting or rehearsing; the act of reading over.3.
Recital.4.
Recital from memory, as distinct from reading.5.
In music, the art of repeating, singing or playing the same part a second time.6.
In rhetoric, reiteration, or a repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.Definition 2024
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See also: répétition
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛpəˈtɪʃən/
Noun
repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)
- The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
- (weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep. A group of repetitions is a set.
Translations
act or an instance of repeating or being repeated
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act of repeating an exercise motion
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
repetition (third-person singular simple present repetitions, present participle repetitioning, simple past and past participle repetitioned)
- To petition again.
- 2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.
- 2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
Anagrams
Swedish
Noun
repetition c
- repetition; the act of repeating
- rehearsal
Declension
| Inflection of repetition | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | repetition | repetitionen | repetitioner | repetitionerna |
| Genitive | repetitions | repetitionens | repetitioners | repetitionernas |
Derived terms
- generalrepetition