ALL meanings of recapitulative
re·ca·pit·u·la·tion
R r - noun recapitulative the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated. 1
- noun recapitulative a brief review or summary, as of a speech. 1
- noun recapitulative 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 recapitulative Music. the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement. 1