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Another word for repetition

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Noun

  1. The act or process of repeating

    See also:

    repetition

  2. Imitative reproduction, as of the style of another

      1. (Linguistics) A form or feature that reflects or represents an earlier, often reconstructed, form or feature having undergone phonetic or other change.
      2. A reflected image, likeness, or reproduction
      3. An image produced by reflection.
      1. Serious thinking or careful consideration:
      2. A manifestation or result:
      3. An indirect expression of censure or discredit:
      1. Something derived or copied from an original, often in an inferior way:
      2. (Philos.) In Platonism, the process wherein sensible objects imperfectly embody unchanging, immaterial models or archetypes
      3. The result or product of imitating; artificial likeness; copy
      1. The repetition of a sound by reflection of sound waves from a surface
      2. (Electronics) A radar wave reflected from an object, appearing as a spot of light on a radarscope
      3. An organ stop for producing the effect of echo
    See also:

    same

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Another word for repetition

Noun
      1. The use of redundant words
      2. (Electronics) Duplication or repetition of elements in electronic equipment to provide alternative functional channels in case of failure.
      3. (Chiefly British) The state or fact of being unemployed because work is no longer offered or considered necessary.
      1. (Psychology) Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.
      2. (Psychology) The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
      3. The tendency of an idea, impression, experience, etc. to persist or recur, or of an individual to continue a particular mental activity without the ability to shift easily to another at a change in stimulus
      1. The act or result of rehashing:
      2. The act or result of rehashing
      3. Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
      1. Something reiterated or restated.
      2. The act of reiterating.
      1. A summary or concise review.
      2. The act or process of recapitulating.
      3. (Music) The section of a composition which restates themes presented earlier; esp., the final division of the sonata form
      1. An instance of renewing, or something renewed
      2. The act of renewing or the state of having been renewed.
      3. (Fencing) An offensive action made immediately after a parried one
      1. The condition of being duplicated.
      2. (Genetics) The occurrence of a repeated section of genetic material in a chromosome.
      3. A copy; replica
      1. A regular, more or less unvarying procedure, customary, prescribed, or habitual, as of business or daily life
      2. A scripted piece of entertainment, especially in a nightclub or theater:
      3. A set of customary or unchanging and often mechanically performed activities or procedures:
      1. Mechanical routine.
      2. A medieval stringed instrument, variously supposed to have been a kind of lyre, lute, or harp
      3. A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension:
      1. Subject matter for a journalist, novelist, etc.
      2. Material, such as a manuscript, that is to be set in type.
      3. A thing made just like another; imitation of an original; full reproduction or transcription
      1. (--- Biology) The process by which genetic material, a single-celled organism, or a virus reproduces or makes a copy of itself.
      2. Process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced.
      3. Copy; reproduction.
      1. The act of reproducing or the condition or process of being reproduced.
      2. Something reproduced, especially in the faithfulness of its resemblance to the form and elements of the original:
      3. Something made by reproducing; copy, close imitation, duplication, etc.
      1. (US) A television program shown after its initial presentation "” particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.
      2. Such a program, film, etc.
      3. A showing of a film after the first run
      1. A formal tax statement on the required official form indicating taxable income, allowed deductions, exemptions, and the computed tax that is due.
      2. The act or condition of going, coming, bringing, or sending back:
      3. A recurrence, as of a periodic occasion or event:
      1. The act or an instance of recurring; reoccurrence, return, repetition, etc.
    See also:

    wordiness

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Sentence Examples

  • Life is too short to spend it with repetition of old dreams that never happened.

  • The repetition of the process brought the same results.

  • Constant repetition makes it easier to learn how to spell a word.

  • The small town with its repetition of nice homes made it a good place to live.

  • The unusual language and repetition made the story seem unreal.

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