| Noun | 1. | recapitulation - emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" |
| 2. | recapitulation - (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated section, subdivision - a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical); "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section" music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner | |
| 3. | recapitulation - a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion capitulation - a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic epanodos - recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order) | |
| 4. | recapitulation - (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) composing, composition - musical creation music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |