recapitulation

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspalingenesis

   Broadergrowth
2. 2.

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

   Broadersection

   music

3. 3.

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

   Synonymsrecapreview

   Broadercapitulation

   Narrowerepanodos
4. 4.

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

   Broadercomposing

   music

Other forms of recapitulation

plural

recapitulations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recapitulation

What does recapitulation mean?

recapitulation means "emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recapitulation?

recapitulation has 7 syllables: re-ca-pi-tu-la-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for recapitulation?

Close synonyms include palingenesis, recap, review. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is recapitulation a common word?

recapitulation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.