Recitation vs Repetition - What's the difference?
recitation | repetition |
The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
The material recited.
A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
*1882 , Wayside Gleanings for Leisure Moments , , page 20,
*:I shall now endeavor to give some account of the College.... Some then go to a recitation' of the lesson they have learnt the previous evening. Some return to their rooms till the breakfast-bell, about seven or after. At eight the sludy bell rings. All must then go in their rooms and continue there, even if they have no lessons to learn, unless they attend a ' recitation which occupies an hour.
*1896 , , "The 'English Courses' of the University of California", reprinted in, 1986, Novels and Essays , Library of America, ISBN 0940450402, page 1109,
*:In the "announcement of courses" published annually by the faculty of the University of California the reader cannot fail to be impressed with the number and scope of the hours devoted by the students to recitations and lectures upon the subject of "literature."
*1999 October 29, J. Levine "Re: Debate on accreditation of Jones International", alt.education.distance , Usenet,
*:Many of my courses, however, were offered in recitation'-lecture format. We would attend class, say twice a week, and a lecture once a week. ... I do seem to recall that my ' recitation sections seldom had less than 40 to 50 students and my lecture classes often had upwards of 100 to 300 students.
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
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*: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.
To petition again.
* 2011 , Anneke Campbell, ?Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
As nouns the difference between recitation and repetition
is that recitation is the act of publicly reciting something previously memorized while repetition is the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.As a verb repetition is
to petition again.recitation
English
Noun
(en noun)repetition
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) repetitionem'' (accusative singular of ''repetitio ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning , losing again and again.