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recapitulate
Found in thesaurus: resume, summarize, summarise, sum up, replicate, double, repeat, reduplicate, duplicate, spiel, play
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recapitulate
v.
summarize, conclude, sum up
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Recapitulation
Recapitulation may refer to:
- Recapitulation (music), a section of musical sonata form where the exposition is repeated in an altered form and the development is concluded
- Recapitulation theory, a scientific theory influential on but no longer accepted in its original form by both evolutionary and developmental biology, namely, that the congruence in form between the same embryonic developmental stages of different species is evidence that the embryos are repeating the evolutionary stages of their ancestral history
- Recapitulation theory of atonement, first clearly expressed by Irenaeus
- Recapitulation (Castaneda), a spiritual practice appearing first in the writings of Carlos Castaneda and later in those of Miguel Ángel Ruiz, Victor Sanchez and others
- Recapitulation (Dentistry-Endodontics), Recapitulation is sequential reentry and reused of each previous instrument. Throughout the deriding or filing process, the root canal must be recapitulated. A smaller diameter file is intermittently and finally inserted to the measured apical length and the small bits of debris that are packed into the apex are removed to insure total canal debridement. Recapitulation is a necessity for proper endodontic success.
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recapitulate
Verb
1. summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"
(synonym) recap
(hypernym) sum up, summarize, summarise, resume
(hyponym) retrograde, rehash, hash over
(derivation) recapitulation, recap, review
2. repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
(hypernym) duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
(derivation) palingenesis, recapitulation
3. repeat an earlier theme of a composition
(synonym) reprise, reprize, repeat
(hypernym) play, spiel
(derivation) recapitulation
(classification) music
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Recapitulate
(v. t.)
To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
(v. i.)
To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
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recapitular
(v.) = recapitulate.
Ex: We must now return to the consideration of indexes and here we shall recapitulate, and expand, upon some of the points already made in Section 1.
Ex: We must now return to the consideration of indexes and here we shall recapitulate, and expand, upon some of the points already made in Section 1.
