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Repeat vs Zygon - What's the difference?

repeat | zygon |

As nouns the difference between repeat and zygon

is that repeat is an iteration; a repetition while zygon is in the cerebrum, a short crossbar fissure that connects the two pairs of branches of a larger zygal (h-shaped) fissure.

As a verb repeat

is (intransitive) to do or say again (and again).

repeat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • *
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  • (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  • (Waller)
  • (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iteration; a repetition.
  • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  • Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
  • See also

    * redundant

    zygon

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • In the cerebrum, a short crossbar fissure that connects the two pairs of branches of a larger zygal (H-shaped) fissure.
  • * 1896', Andrew J. Parker, "Morphology of the Cerebral Convolutions with special reference to the order of Primates", ''Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia'', Second Series, ' 10 (3): 323
  • “The evidence is threefold: (1) as admitted by Ecker, the zygon always appears independently in the foetus;
  • An affinity or connection in a piece of music between tones, chords, or phrases, such that one part appears to repeat, to imitate, or to derive from the other, especially when perceived as an organising principle in the music; a zygonic relationship.
  • * 2005 , Adam Ockelford, Repetition in music: theoretical and metatheoretical perspectives (page 121)
  • Chopin's Prelude op. 28 no. 6 comprises 403 notes which give rise—in just one sub-domain (pitch class)—to around 13,000 potential primary zygons', 500 million potential secondary '''zygons''', and 1018 potential tertiary ' zygons .
  • * 2006 , Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music (page 142)
  • Zygonic relationships, or zygons , are depicted using the letter Z.
  • * 2012 , Adam Ockelford, Applied Musicology: Using Zygonic Theory to Inform Music Education, Therapy, and Psychology Research , page 106
  • Observe that the second melodic interval is deemed to exist in imitation of the first through the repetition of magnitude but not polarity through an "inverse" secondary zygon of pitch.