Thesaurus: repetition

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1. n. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
2. n. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
3. n. The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
4. n. word/reiteration">Reiteration, or word/repeating">repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
5. n. The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
6. n. an event that repeats
7. n. the act of doing or performing again
8. n. the word/repeated">repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
9. 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. Shak. 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal. 3. (Mus.) The act of repeating, singing, 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.
10. The act of repeating, singing,
11. n:100 n. the act of word/doing">doing or word/performing">performing again n. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device