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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recapitulation \Re`ca*pit`u*la"tion\, n. [LL. recapitulatio: cf
F. recapitulation.]
The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or
enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements,
in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
recapitulation
n 1: emergence during embryonic development of various characters
or structures that appeared during the evolutionary
history of the strain or species [syn: {palingenesis}]
[ant: {cenogenesis}]
2: a summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
[syn: {recap}, {review}]
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