repetition

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   verb

   To petition again.

   The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.

3. 3
   noun

   the act of doing or performing again

4. 4
   noun

   the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

5. 5
   noun

   an event that repeats

6. 6
   noun

   The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio. By surface analysis, repeat + -ition.