Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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recapitulation | Yes | No | No | No |
ontogeny | Yes | No | No | No |
recapitulation (noun) | ontogeny (noun) |
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(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | (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 summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | |
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | |
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species |