Synonyms for recapitulation

Synonyms for (noun) recapitulation

Synonyms: recapitulation

Definition: (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)

Similar words: composing, composition

Definition: musical creation


Synonyms: recap, recapitulation, review

Definition: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion

Similar words: capitulation

Definition: a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic


Synonyms: recapitulation

Definition: (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

Similar words: section, subdivision

Definition: a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)

Usage: he always turns first to the business section; the history of this work is discussed in the next section


Synonyms: palingenesis, recapitulation

Definition: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

Similar words: growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development

Definition: (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

Usage: he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children


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