RECAPITULATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does recapitulation mean?
• RECAPITULATION (noun)
The noun RECAPITULATION has 3 senses:
1. emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
2. (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
3. a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
Familiarity information: RECAPITULATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• RECAPITULATION (noun)
Meaning:
Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
palingenesis; recapitulation
Hypernyms ("recapitulation" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Meaning:
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recapitulation" is a kind of...):
section; subdivision (a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical))
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Meaning:
A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
recap; recapitulation; review
Hypernyms ("recapitulation" is a kind of...):
capitulation (a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recapitulation"):
epanodos (recapitualtion of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order))
