recitation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance

   the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems

2. 2
   noun

   The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.

   The recitation will air nationally and be featured at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

3. 3
   noun

   A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.

   I shall now endeavor to give some account of the College.... Some then go to a recitation of the lesson they have learnt the previous evening. Some return to their rooms till the breakfast-bell, about seven or after. At eight the sludy bell rings. All must then go in their rooms and continue there, even if they have no lessons to learn, unless they attend a recitation which occupies an hour.

4. 4
   noun

   systematic training by multiple repetitions

5. 5
   noun

   a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study

6. 6
   noun

   written matter that is recited from memory

7. 7
   noun

   The material recited.

8. 8
   noun

   A reiteration; a setting down, e.g. for ease of reference, of something previously established.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récitation, from Latin recitatio, equivalent to recite + -ation.