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Recapitulation
01
(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
02
the act of repeating the key points or parts of something in order to summarize it
Examples
The professor 's recapitulation of the lecture helped students review the main concepts.
At the end of the meeting, there was a brief recapitulation of the decisions made.
03
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
04
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
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