Recitement vs. Recapitulation
Recitementnoun
The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized; a recitation.
Recapitulationnoun
A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
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(music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
Recapitulationnoun
(biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
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(theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
Recapitulationnoun
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.
Recapitulationnoun
That process of development of the individual organism from the embryonic stage onward, which displays a parallel between the development of an individual animal (ontogeny) and the historical evolution of the species (phylogeny). Some authors recognize two types of recapitulation, palingenesis, in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced during development; and cenogenesis (kenogenesis or coenogenesis), the mode of individual development in which alterations in the development process have changed the original process of recapitulation and obscured the evolutionary pathway.
Recapitulationnoun
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
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a section of a musical composition or movement in which themes introduced earlier are repeated
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a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
