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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.
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- 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.
- n. emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- n. (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
- n. a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- n. (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
- 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.
- The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement orenumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in apreceding discourse, argument, or essay.
- n:100 n. (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated n. a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion n. (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)