recapitulation
Brief summary restated
Recapitulation is a summary or restatement of the main points of something already covered: Let me offer a brief recapitulation of our findings.
In music, it refers to the section of a sonata or symphony where earlier themes return after development.
In biology, the now-discredited theory that embryos pass through stages resembling their evolutionary ancestors.
The verb is recapitulate, often shortened to recap.
Condensed version of content
- abstractCondensed version of text
- outlineSummary of key elements
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
- digestMetabolize or summarize
précis · compendium · abridgment · overview · rundown · capsule · roundup · sketch
Individual's developmental history
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
- HaeckelGerman zoologist, Darwin champion
- embryologyStudy of prenatal development
- embryoOrganism before birth
development · morphogenesis · vestigial · evolutionary · stages · recapitulates · fetal · homology
Closing musical passage
- sonataMulti-movement instrumental composition
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- themeCentral recurring concept
reprise · motif · movement · recurrence · return · restatement · fugue · variation
Restatement in new words
- rewordingRestating in different terms
- reiterationSaying something again
- restatingExpressing again in other words
- rephrasingRestating in other words
recap · retelling · rehash · recounting · repetition · reformulation · run-through · review
synopsis
Condensed version of content
- abstractCondensed version of text
- outlineSummary of key elements
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
digest · précis · compendium · abridgment · overview · rundown · capsule · roundup · sketch · conspectus
ontogeny
Individual's developmental history
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
- HaeckelGerman zoologist, Darwin champion
- embryologyStudy of prenatal development
embryo · development · morphogenesis · vestigial · evolutionary · stages · recapitulates · fetal · homology · Darwinism
coda
Closing musical passage
- sonataMulti-movement instrumental composition
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- developmentProgress toward maturity
theme · reprise · motif · movement · recurrence · return · restatement · fugue · variation · leitmotif
paraphrase
Restatement in new words
- rewordingRestating in different terms
- reiterationSaying something again
- restatingExpressing again in other words
rephrasing · recap · retelling · rehash · recounting · repetition · reformulation · run-through · review · rehearing
summation
Adding to find total
- classical musicBach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms
- classical music termspiano concerto, violin concerto, concerto, sonata, tone poem
- atonementpropitiation, substitution, reconciler, forgiveness, sin offering
- composition termsmelody, harmony, rhythm, tempo, key
- Musical Movementsmovement, first movement, second movement, slow movement, finale
- obsolete sciencephlogiston, aether, phlogiston theory, ether, caloric
recapitulationexpansion
Increase in scope
elaboration · amplification · enlargement · extension · development
recapitulationintroduction
Preliminary section or presentation
premiere · debut · origination · innovation
recapitulationintroduction
Preliminary section or presentation
preamble · preface · prologue · opening · commencement
capital, capitulate, decapitate, recapitulate, capitulation, capitalized