Noun Definition

recapitulation

1.Definition: (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)

Category: General

2.Definition: (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

Category: General

3.Definition: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion

Related Noun(s):recap, review

Category: General

4.Definition: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

Category: General