recapitulation
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re·ca·pit·u·la·tion
(rē'kə-pĭch'ə-lā'shən) 
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n.
- The act or process of recapitulating.
- A summary or concise review.
- See biogenesis (sense 4).
- Music. Restatement or reworking of the exposition in the tonic, constituting the third and final section of the typical sonata form.
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recapitulation
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- A condensation of the essential or main points of something: rundown, run-through, sum, summary, summation, summing-up, wrap-up. Informal recap. See words.
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Recapitulation
The third main division of a movement in Sonata form, in which the thematic material of the first section is restated, normally all in the tonic key.
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Recapitulation
recapitulation, theory, stated as the biogenetic law by E. H. Haeckel, that the embryological development of the individual repeats the stages in the evolutionary development of the species. For example, the beginnings of gill clefts appear in both humans and fish, but while they are elaborated and eventually function in the fish, in humans, except for the modified gill cleft that becomes the Eustachian tube, they disappear as the embryo develops. Though drastically modified and qualified since its proposal, the historical significance of this theory-"ontogenesis recapitulates phylogenesis"-is that with its appearance it lent support to the theory of evolution by seeming to corroborate it.
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categories related to 'recapitulation'
- Genetics, Heredity, and Evolution - recapitulation: palingenesis
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