the act or an instance of repeating; reiteration a thing, word, action, etc, that is repeated a replica or copy
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rep•e•ti•tion /ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃən/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- the act of repeating;
a repeated action or performance: [uncountable]avoided unnecessary repetition in his essays.[countable]many repetitions.
rep•e•ti•tion
(rep′i tish′ən),USA pronunciation n.
- the act of repeating;
repeated action, performance, production, or presentation. - repeated utterance;
reiteration. - something made by or resulting from repeating.
- a reproduction, copy, or replica.
- Law[Civil Law.]an action or demand for the recovery of a payment or delivery made by error or upon failure to fulfill a condition.
- Latin repetītiōn- (stem of repetītiō), equivalent. to repetīt(us) (past participle of repetere to repeat) + -iōn- -ion
- Old French repeticion)
- late Middle English (1375–1425
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'repetition' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Callanetics
- Gloria
- Mishna
- Reich
- Transcendental Meditation
- again
- always
- anadiplosis
- anaphora
- and
- aspect
- autosuggestion
- battology
- beginning rhyme
- bench press
- bis
- bore
- brainwashing
- busy signal
- cant
- cohobate
- consonance
- controlling image
- custom
- diminution
- din
- ding
- disfluency
- ditto
- ditto mark
- do
- doublet
- drill
- drub
- drum
- echo
- echolalia
- echopraxia
- eh
- emphasis
- encore
- epanalepsis
- epanodos
- epiphora
- epistrophe
- et cetera
- excuse
- exercise
- factoid
- follow