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Recap vs Repetition - What's the difference?

recap | repetition |

As nouns the difference between recap and repetition

is that recap is a recapitulation while repetition is repetition.

As a verb recap

is to seal (something) again with a cap or recap can be to recapitulate.

recap

English

Etymology 1

re- + cap

Verb

  • To seal (something) again with a cap.

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from recapitulate/recapitulation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A recapitulation.
    • Synonyms
    * (recapitulation) summarisation/summarization, summary, summing-up

    Verb

    (recapp)
  • To recapitulate.
    • Synonyms
    * (recapitulate) summarise/summarize, sum up

    Anagrams

    * * * English heteronyms

    repetition

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) repetitionem'' (accusative singular of ''repetitio ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  • (lb): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep'. A group of ' repetitions is a set.
    • Related terms
    * repetitious

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To petition again.
  • * 2011 , Anneke Campbell, ?Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
    • The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning , losing again and again.

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