repetition
/ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
repetition noun: the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
Noun
repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)
- The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
- How we hope and believe each day will be our last of anxious waiting! The post comes in, and there is no letter for us. How bitter is the disappointment! and on every repetition it grows more acute.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The End of Doubt”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 288
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St....1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- recurrence
- The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
- Synonyms:
- rep
Verb
IPA/ˌɹiːpəˈtɪʃən/
repetition (third-person singular simple present repetitions, present participle repetitioning, simple past and past participle repetitioned)
- To petition again.
- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change, page 7
repetition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
repetition in Hindi
- repetition, reiteration
- आवृत्ति āvŕtti
repetition in Tamil
- மறுமுறைமை, மீள்நிகழ்வு, திரும்பவும் நிகழ்தல், மறுநிகழ்வு, திரும்பத் தோன்றுதல், திரும்ப வருதல்
repetition in Marathi
- act or an instance of repeating or being repeated
- पुनरावृत्ती punrāvŕttī
repetition in Urdu
- repetition
- تکرار takrār, انواد anuvād
More languagesFewer languages
- repetition in Telugu
- పునరుక్తి punarukti
- repetition in Malayalam
- ആവർത്തനം āvaṟttanaṁ
- repetition in Kannada
- ಇರ್ನುಡಿಹ, ಇನ್ನುಡಿಹ, ಪುನರುಕ್ತಿ, ಪುನರಾವರ್ತನ
- repetition in Punjabi
- ਅਭਿਆਸ abhiāsa
- repetition in Sanskrit
- आम्रेडित āmreḍita, रोमन्थ romantha, आवृत्ति āvṛtti, अनुवाद anuvāda
- repetition in Tagalog
- again
- repetition in Arabic
- تَكْرَار takrār, إِعَادَة ʔiʕāda
- repetition in Persian
- تکرار takrâr
Examples of repetition in a sentence
- It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- The Lectures were a novelty in German philosophy, dominated as it was by the categories of Kant and Hegel, but to the rest of Europe they were merely a repetition of well-known theories.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon...
Synonyms of repetition
Forms of repetition
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | repetitions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | repetitions |
| present participle | repetitioning |
| past participle | repetitioned |
| past | repetitioned |
| alternative form | re-petition |
Origin of repetition
Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio. By surface analysis, repeat + -ition.
From re- + petition.
Words formed from repetition
Phrases with repetition
Questions about repetition
- What does repetition mean?
- Repetition means the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
- What is repetition in Hindi?
- Repetition in Hindi is आवृत्ति (āvŕtti). See Repetition meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use repetition in a sentence?
- It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St.
- What part of speech is repetition?
- Repetition can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce repetition?
- Repetition is pronounced /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/.
- What is the plural of repetition?
- The plural of repetition is repetitions.
Words near repetition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: repetition (page history and authors); आवृत्ति (Hindi) (page history and authors); repetition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); انواد (Urdu) (page history and authors); పునరుక్తి (Telugu) (page history and authors); repetition (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅਭਿਆਸ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); अनुवाद (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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