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/rˌɛpətˈɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Repetition n.

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. "I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition."

Recital from memory; rehearsal.

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

(Rhet.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.

(Astron. & Surv.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.

Synonyms: Iteration; rehearsal. See Tautology.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repetition" Quotes from Famous Books

... heroisms, how capricious its course, how brief its flight, how stingy in happinesses, how opulent in miseries, how few its prides, how multitudinous its humiliations, how comic its tragedies, how tragic its comedies, how wearisome and monotonous its repetition of its stupid history through the ages, with never the introduction of a new detail; how hard it has tried, from the Creation down, to play itself upon its possessor as a boon and has never proved its case in a ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... to it in grim determination, cutting out the down-town luncheon and munching crackers and cheese while they opened and read and wrote and returned money and explained and re-explained in deadly and wearisome repetition. ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various

... cruiser is blockading a friendly belligerent, who has sought the asylum in those waters accorded to him by the law of nations. I have, therefore, respectfully to request that you will keep a-watch by means of guard boats, at both points of this harbour, to prevent the repetition of the hostile act which was committed against me last night; or, if you will not do this yourself, that you will permit me to arm boats and capture the enemy when so approaching me. It would seem quite plain, either that I should ...

— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes

... like bunches of flowers flaring in the sun, and then all soft and delicate as they float past in our shadow. The priests in these boats, with their yellow robes and round palm leaf fans have a decorative effect of repetition, and we are told these fans keep their thoughts from wandering from righteousness to pretty girls. Palm leaves, robes, and their bare right shoulders and arms are all in harmonious browns and yellows; the water is bluish mother-of-pearl. The men ...

— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... To avoid the Repetition of the Composition of particular Medicines, and the Interruption that would be given by their being inserted in the Body of the Work, a small Pharmacopoeia is added, to which his Practice in the ...

— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

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