Repetition
[repɪ'tɪʃ(ə)n] or ['rɛpə'tɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of doing or performing again.
(noun.) the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device.
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Definition
(n.) The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
(n.) Recital from memory; rehearsal.
(n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
(n.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
(n.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Iteration, dwelling, harping, reiteration.[2]. Tautology, pleonasm, redundancy, diffuseness, verbosity.[3]. Recital, rehearsal, relation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Iteration, reiteration, dwelling_upon, diffuseness, verbosity, relation,[SeeRELATION]
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Definition
n. act of repeating: recital from memory.—ns. Rep′etend that part of a repeating decimal which recurs continually: the burden of a song; Repetent′ a tutor or private teacher in Germany.—adjs. Repeti′tional Repeti′tionary.—n. Repeti′tioner.—adj. Repeti′tious using undue repetitions.—n. Repeti′tiousness.—adj. Repet′itive.—n. Repet′itor a repetent.
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Examples
- But her repetition of it would gain time--time for Frederick. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To believe is in this case to feel an immediate impression of the senses, or a repetition of that impression in the memory. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Nothing less than a repetition of that infallible remedy will relieve his feelings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As this causes a loud repetition of the original signals, it will be seen that relaying is an economic method of extending a telegraph circuit beyond the natural limits of its battery power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The prisoner counted the measurement again, and paced faster, to draw his mind with him from that latter repetition. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Let them be this, let them be taken up entirely in their work, let them be perfect parts of a great machine, having a slumber of constant repetition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But to Miss Bart's relief the repetition of her promise was cut short by the opening of the box door to admit George Dorset. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Could a repetition of it be prevented? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Lacking a philosophy they are defenceless against their own inner tendency to sink into repetition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Indeed, it was only frequent repetition, and the credence of the hundred and fifty minds round mewhich forced on me its full acceptance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr. Woodhouse could not be soon reconciled; but the worst was overcome, the idea was given; time and continual repetition must do the rest. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And this is the Godmotion, this productive repetition ad infinitum. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They think that safety lies in repetition, that if you do nothing, nothing will be done to you. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I set down fifty-two distinct repetitions, and then the echo got the advantage of me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But we had repetitions of church and prayer-meetings; and so, of course, we were just as eligibly situated as we could have been any where. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Literally and exactly what I heard, he answered-- except that the repetitions are not transferred here from my short-hand notes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The repetitions, in this sense, were of some assistance to me in putting together those fragments. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The symbols that form the alphabet consist of combinations of short and long strokes, which by their repetitions and variations, are made to stand for different letters. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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