repetition
the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
repeated utterance; reiteration.
something made by or resulting from repeating.
a reproduction, copy, or replica.
Civil Law. an action or demand for the recovery of a payment or delivery made by error or upon failure to fulfill a condition.
Origin of repetition
1Other words from repetition
- non·rep·e·ti·tion, noun
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How to use repetition in a sentence
Another time-related phenomenon is that repetition of experience renders memories generic.
Even if you can only do a few repetitions, try to increase your internal tension while doing so—like making a fist to smash through a weak sheetrock wall.
There’s a better way to warm up than stretching | John Kennedy | September 30, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThrough millions of repetitions, it could then discover not just the patterns among the words but also the relationships between the words and the elements in each image.
These weird, unsettling photos show that AI is getting smarter | Karen Hao | September 25, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewMuch of that time is taken up by the laborious repetition of experiments to synthesize new compounds and learn from trial and error.
IBM has built a new drug-making lab entirely in the cloud | Karen Hao | August 28, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewAs Collen pointed out, there’s a combination of talent and repetitions at play in the rise of any unexpected new star.
These 3 Breakout Stars Are Making The Most Of The WNBA Bubble | Howard Megdal | August 14, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
Kendrick rapidly chants these last lines in repetition with Bilal and Anna Wise sing-shouting behind him, like a rallying cry.
Kendrick Lamar Shuts Down ‘The Colbert Report’ with Untitled Track | Charlise Ferguson | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe next 10 times after that, the sheer repetition made it funny again, like the famous Simpsons rake joke.
Rage Against GamerGate’s Hate Machine: What I Got For Speaking Up | Arthur Chu | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go," Springsteen sings before launching into the "Born in the U.S.A." chorus in repetition.
Are Politicians Too Dumb to Understand the Lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’? | Parker Molloy | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe repetition of that became as tastelessly titillating as showing us a torn arm or a decomposing torso.
In contrast to past beliefs, repetition may reduce the fidelity of memory representations.
Repetition Doesn’t Work: Better Ways to Train Your Memory | Gregory Ferenstein | July 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is either thoughtless repetition, or thoughtful Analysis that he must use.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Endless repetition or repeating a sentence to be memorised over and over again is the usual process.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Her voice was stern; it bore to the girl's ears a subtle, unworded repetition of the threat the Marquise had already voiced.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniThis Series is usually learned by endless repetition, as a succession of sounds to the ear, or sight to the eye, by mere rote.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)The first is the traditional method of learning by rote or endless repetition.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
British Dictionary definitions for repetition
/ (ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃən) /
the act or an instance of repeating; reiteration
a thing, word, action, etc, that is repeated
a replica or copy
civil law Scots law the recovery or repayment of money paid or received by mistake, as when the same bill has been paid twice
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