recapitulation

What does recapitulation mean?

• A valid word accepted in tournament Scrabble and Words With Friends play.

• noun

  emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

• noun

  a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion

• noun

  (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)

• noun

  (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

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