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recapitulation
noun(re-ca-pit-u-la-tion)
a concise summary
recapitulation
noun(re-ca-pit-u-la-tion)
the hypothetical occurrence in an individual organism's development of successive stages resembling the series of ancestral types from which it has descended so that the ontogeny of the individual retraces the phylogeny of its group
recapitulation
noun(re-ca-pit-u-la-tion)
the third section of a sonata form

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