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Meaning of recapitulation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  recapitulation
      n 1: emergence during embryonic development of various
           characters or structures that appeared during the
           evolutionary history of the strain or species [syn:
           {palingenesis}, {recapitulation}] [ant: {caenogenesis},
           {cainogenesis}, {cenogenesis}, {kainogenesis},
           {kenogenesis}]
      2: (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially
         in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced
         earlier are repeated
      3: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer
         discussion [syn: {recapitulation}, {recap}, {review}]
      4: (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier
         (especially when one is composing the final part of a
         movement)

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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