repetition
Americannoun
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the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
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repeated utterance; reiteration.
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something made by or resulting from repeating.
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a reproduction, copy, or replica.
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Civil Law. an action or demand for the recovery of a payment or delivery made by error or upon failure to fulfill a condition.
noun
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the act or an instance of repeating; reiteration
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a thing, word, action, etc, that is repeated
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a replica or copy
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civil law Scots law the recovery or repayment of money paid or received by mistake, as when the same bill has been paid twice
Other Word Forms
- nonrepetition noun
Etymology
Origin of repetition
1375–1425; late Middle English (< Old French repeticion ) < Latin repetītiōn- (stem of repetītiō ), equivalent to repetīt ( us ) (past participle of repetere to repeat ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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As Sunday's talks began, Umerov said: "We are discussing about the future of Ukraine, about the security of Ukraine, about no repetition of aggression of Ukraine, about prosperity of Ukraine, about how to rebuild Ukraine".
From BBC
In this study, repetition served as a stand-in for importance, letting researchers compare frequently repeated contexts with those seen only occasionally.
From Science Daily
"It's all about the patience of the staff here, because it's all about repetition followed by more repetition until those behaviours embed themselves in those young children," he said.
From BBC
They are the queen and king of carefully calibrated consistency, and one wishes that from time to time Mr. Serrano would follow their lead and lose some of the repetition and one-word paragraphs.
When it comes to building habits, Mr. Thompson, the CEO of the Atlantic magazine, observes that repetition can “create grooves in our minds that make it easier to do the same thing again.”
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