Meaning of REPETITION
| Pronunciation: | | `repi'tishun
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- [n] the act of doing or performing again
- [n] the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
- [n] an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"
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| | Synonyms: | | repeat, repeating |
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| | See Also: | | anadiplosis, anaphora, continuance, continuation, copying, cycle, echolalia, epanalepsis, epanaphora, epanodos, epiphora, epistrophe, gemination, iteration, periodic event, ploce, polyptoton, recurrence, recurrent event, redundancy, reduplication, reduplication, reiteration, rematch, renewal, replay, replication, return, rhetorical device, sequence, symploce | |
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Robbe-Grillet`s first nouveau roman in 20 years takes place in 1949, when a secret agent and his double pursue and elude each other in Berlin, where a murder is committed and the tale is commented on by an editor who ferrets out errors and lies. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Rep`e*ti"tion\ (r[e^]p`[-e]-t[i^]sh"[u^]n), n. [L.
repetitio: cf. F. r['e]p['e]tition. See {Repeat}.]
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, or playing, the same
piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
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}.
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