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recapitulate /rē-kə-pitˈyə-lāt/ transitive verb- To go over again the chief points of
- (of an embryo) to repeat (stages in the development of the species) during embryonic development
- To repeat (an earlier passage) in a musical work
ORIGIN: L recapitulāre, -ātum, from re- again, and capitulum heading, chapter, from caput head recapitūlāˈtion noun - The act of recapitulating
- Summing up
- The reproduction, in the developmental stages of an individual embryo, of the evolutionary stages in the life history of the race or type (biology)
- The final repetition of the subjects in sonata form after development (music)
recapitˈūlātive or recapitˈūlatory adjective - Repeating again
- Of the nature of a recapitulation
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