/ɹɛˌpʌtɪˈʃʌnz/ - [reputishunz] -
We found 3 definitions of repetitions from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: repetitions |
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repetition - the act of doing or performing again | ||
repeating | ||
continuance, continuation the act of continuing an activity without interruption | ||
echolalia (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) | ||
iteration doing or saying again; a repeated performance | ||
redundancy repetition of an act needlessly | ||
reiteration, reduplication the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | ||
copying an act of copying | ||
action replay, instant replay, replay the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape | ||
renewal the act of renewing | ||
repetition - the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | ||
rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | ||
anadiplosis, reduplication repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | ||
epanalepsis repetition after intervening words | ||
epanodos repetition of a group of words in reverse order | ||
epiphora, epistrophe repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | ||
gemination the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect) | ||
ploce (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning | ||
polyptoton repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence; "My own heart's heart" | ||
epanaphora, anaphora repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | ||
anaphora using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | ||
repetition - an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" | ||
repeat | ||
periodic event, recurrent event an event that recurs at intervals | ||
sequence film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie | ||
cycle a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons" | ||
rematch, replay the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape |