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recapitulation |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Recapitulation \Re`ca*pit`u*la"tion\, n. [LL. recapitulatio: cf F. recapitulation.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: recapitulation n 1: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species [syn: {palingenesis}] [ant: {cenogenesis}] 2: a summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion [syn: {recap}, {review}]
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