Recapitulation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  2. a brief review or summary, as of a speech.
  3. the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage.
  4. the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement.
noun
  1. the act of recapitulating, esp summing up, as at the end of a speech
  2. the apparent repetition in the embryonic development of an animal of the changes that occurred during its evolutionary history
  3. the repeating of earlier themes, esp when forming the final section of a movement in sonata form
Recapitulation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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