Search Result for "repetition":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. an event that repeats;
- Example: "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"
[syn: repeat, repetition]
2. the act of doing or performing again;
[syn: repetition, repeating]
3. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Repetition \Rep`e*ti"tion\ (r[e^]p`[-e]-t[i^]sh"[u^]n), n. [L. repetitio: cf. F. r['e]p['e]tition. See Repeat.] 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. [1913 Webster] I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mus.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note. [1913 Webster] 4. (Rhet.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience. [1913 Webster] 5. (Astron. & Surv.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument. [1913 Webster] Syn: Iteration; rehearsal. See Tautology. [1913 Webster] RepetitionalMoby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "repetition": ceaselessness, chattering, clockwork regularity, clone, conduplication, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, copy, copying, counterfeiting, counterpart, ditto, double, doubling, dupe, duplicate, duplication, echo, echoing, emulation, endurance, evenness, extension, facsimile, fakery, following, forgery, gemination, hit-off, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, incessancy, ingemination, iteration, lengthening, maintenance, methodicalness, mimesis, mirroring, model, noninterruption, onomatopoeia, oscillation, palingenesis, parody, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, plagiarism, plagiary, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, pulsation, punctuality, pursuance, quadruplicate, quick fire, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, re-creation, re-formation, rebirth, rebuilding, recapitulation, recital, reconstitution, reconstruction, redesign, redoing, redundancies, redundancy, reduplication, reedition, reestablishment, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, regularity, rehearsal, reinstitution, reissue, reiteration, remaking, renascence, renovation, reorganization, repeat, repeating, replica, replication, representation, reprinting, reprise, reproduction, rerun, reshaping, restatement, restoration, restructuring, resurrection, retelling, revision, revival, run, simulation, smoothness, staccato, staying power, steadiness, straight course, stuttering, sustained action, sustainment, sustenance, systematicalness, takeoff, tattoo, tautologies, tautology, triplicate, twinning, uniformity, unintermission, uninterrupted course, uninterruption, unremittingness, vibration, way
