ALL meanings of recapitulation
re·ca·pit·u·la·tion
R r - noun recapitulation the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated. 1
- noun recapitulation a brief review or summary, as of a speech. 1
- noun recapitulation Biology. the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage. 1
- noun recapitulation Music. the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement. 1
- noun recapitulation summary 1
- noun recapitulation the act of recapitulating, esp summing up, as at the end of a speech 0
- noun recapitulation the apparent repetition in the embryonic development of an animal of the changes that occurred during its evolutionary history 0
- noun recapitulation the repeating of earlier themes, esp when forming the final section of a movement in sonata form 0
- noun recapitulation the act of recapitulating 0
- noun recapitulation a summary, or brief restatement 0
- noun recapitulation palingenesis (sense 3) 0
- noun recapitulation the section of a composition which restates themes presented earlier; esp., the final division of the sonata form 0