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- DictionaryRe·ca·pit·u·la·tion/ˌrēkəˌpiCHəˈlāSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. an act or instance of summarizing and restating the main points of something: "his recapitulation of the argument"
1. : a concise summary. 2. : the hypothetical occurrence in an individual organism's development of successive stages resembling the series of ancestral types from which it has descended so that the ontogeny of the individual retraces the phylogeny of its group. 3.
recapitulate. verb. re· ca· pit· u· late ˌrē-kə-ˈpi-chə-ˌlāt. recapitulated; recapitulating; recapitulates. Synonyms of recapitulate. transitive verb. 1. : to retell or restate briefly : summarize. recapitulate the main points of an argument.
RECAPITULATION definition: 1. formal for recap 2. in classical music, an act of repeating an earlier theme (= tune…. Learn more.
noun. the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated. a brief review or summary, as of a speech. Biology. the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage.
RECAPITULATION meaning: 1. formal for recap 2. in classical music, an act of repeating an earlier theme (= tune…. Learn more.
n. 1. the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated. 2. a brief review or summary, as of a speech. 3. the theory that the evolutionary history of a species is made evident in the developmental stages of each of its representative organisms.
to repeat the main points of an explanation or description: [ T ] The passage recapitulates the version he offers in his prologue. (Definition of recapitulate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of recapitulate. recapitulate.
A summary or concise review. Palingenesis. The section of a composition which restates themes presented earlier; esp., the final division of the sonata form. A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
noun. /ˌriːkəpɪtʃuˈleɪʃn/. /ˌriːkəpɪtʃuˈleɪʃn/. [countable, uncountable] (formal) (also recap) the act of repeating or giving a summary of what has already been said, decided, etc. a brief recapitulation of the major findings.
1. the act of recapitulating, esp summing up, as at the end of a speech. [...] 2. : palingenesis biology. the apparent repetition in the embryonic development of an animal of the changes that occurred during its evolutionary history. [...] 3. music. the repeating of earlier themes, esp when forming the final section of a movement in sonata form.
