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Definition of "recapitulation" [re•ca•pit•u•la•tion]

  • The act or process of recapitulating. (noun)
  • A summary or concise review. (noun)
  • See biogenesis. (noun)
  • Music Restatement or reworking of the exposition in the tonic, constituting the third and final section of the typical sonata form. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "recapitulation" in a sentence
  • "But the recapitulation is as gratuitous as it is insulting and untrue."
  • "The sixth rule Tichonius calls the recapitulation, which, with sufficient watchfulness, is discovered in difficult parts of Scripture."
  • "There was nothing left for it to do but to repeat, in short recapitulation, the course it had traversed, and to prove that it had been buried only after it had expired."