repetition
noun
- rhetorical device
- multiple consecutive occurences of the same event
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/ / [ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.n̩] / /ˌɹiːpəˈtɪʃən/
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio. By surface analysis, repeat + -ition.
- The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
“How we hope and believe each day will be our last of anxious waiting! The post comes in, and there is no letter for us. How bitter is the disappointment! and on every repetition it grows more acute.”
“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.”
- The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English petition English repetition From re- + petition.
- To petition again.
“The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.”