Recapitulation
[,riːkəpɪtjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [,rikə,pɪtʃə'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement).
(noun.) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
(noun.) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated.
Editor: Ned--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
Checker: Steve
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Summary, summing up.
Edited by Jacqueline
Examples
- In reality, her thoughts were finding definite utterance in the tranquil recapitulation of the blessings in store for her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The announcement of supper put a stop both to the game of ecarte, and the recapitulation of the beauties of the Eatanswill _Gazette_. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I claim the right to correct misstatements, and have so corrected the color of the water in the above recapitulation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The former recapitulation occurs physiologically; the latter should be made to occur by means of education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the last chapter I shall give a brief recapitulation of the whole work, and a few concluding remarks. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The business of education is rather to liberate the young from reviving and retraversing the past than to lead them to a recapitulation of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All then took their leave, wishing their entertainer long life and happiness as a married man, with recapitulations which occupied some time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Madge