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recapitulation vs growth

growth vs recapitulation

recapitulation and growth both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
recapitulation Yes No No No
growth Yes No No No
As nouns, growth is a hypernym of recapitulation; that is, growth is a word with a broader meaning than recapitulation:
  • recapitulation: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
  • growth: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
Other hypernyms of recapitulation include development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
recapitulation (noun) growth (noun)
(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) the gradual beginning or coming forth
a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion vegetation that has grown
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated something grown or growing
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
a progression from simpler to more complex forms
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
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