Definition of repetition

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Repetition (n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note..

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Echo :: Echo (n.) A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
Rehearsal :: Rehearsal (n.) The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise..
Frequentative :: Frequentative (a.) Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb..
Infinite :: Infinite (a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated..
Ingemination :: Ingemination (n.) Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
Repetitional :: Repetitional (a.) Alt. of Repetitionar.
Over :: Over (adv.) Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over..
Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc..
Irksome :: Irksome (a.) Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks..
Gemination :: Gemination (n.) A doubling; duplication; repetition.
Repetitive :: Repetitive (a.) Containing repetition; repeating.
Rote :: Rote (n.) A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote..
Repeat :: Repeat (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.)..
Palinode :: Palinode (n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode..
Repeat :: Repeat (n.) The act of repeating; repetition.
Response :: Response (n.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.
Battology :: Battology (n.) A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
Epiphora :: Epiphora (n.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas..
Reiterative :: Reiterative (n.) A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally..
Repetitious :: Repetitious (a.) Repeating; containing repetition.
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