repetition
/ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed."
- "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."
- "The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio. By surface analysis, repeat + -ition.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: repetitionem