repetition

See also: répétition

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛpəˈtɪʃən/

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Noun

repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)

1. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 288:

     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.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:

     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.

2. (weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.

   Synonym: rep

Synonyms

• (act of repeating): See Thesaurus:repetition
• (instance of repeating): recurrence, reiteration; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence

Related terms

• repetitious

Translations

act or an instance of repeating or being repeated

• Arabic: تَكْرَار‎ m (takrār), إِعَادَة‎ f (ʾiʿāda)
• Armenian: կրկնություն (hy) (krknutʿyun)
• Bashkir: ҡабатлау (qabatlaw)
• Belarusian: паўтарэ́нне n (paŭtarénnje)
• Bulgarian: повторе́ние (bg) n (povtorénie)
• Catalan: repetició (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重複 (zh), 重复 (zh) (chóngfù)

• Czech: opakování (cs) n
• Danish: gentagelse (da) c
• Dutch: herhaling (nl) f
• Finnish: kertaus (fi), toisto (fi)
• French: répétition (fr) f
• Galician: repetición (gl) f
• Georgian: გამეორება (gameoreba)
• German: Wiederholung (de) f, Repetition f
• Greek: επανάληψη (el) f (epanálipsi), απαντώ (el) (apantó)

  Ancient: ἐπανάληψις f (epanálēpsis), (verbal) διλογία f (dilogía)

• Hebrew: חזרה‎ f (khazará)
• Hungarian: (from a transitive verb) ismétlés (hu), (from an intransitive verb) ismétlődés
• Ido: itero (io)
• Irish: athdhéanamh m, athra (saying again), athsheinm m (playing again), atarlú m (reoccurrence)

• Italian: ripetizione (it) f
• Japanese: 繰り返し (ja) (くりかえし, kurikaeshi), 反復 (ja) (はんぷく, hanpuku)
• Korean: 되풀이 (doepuri), 반복 (ko) (banbok)
• Latin: repetītiō f, iterātiō f
• Latvian: atkārtojums m
• Macedonian: повторување n (povtoruvanje)
• Malayalam: ആവർത്തനം (ml) (āvaṟttanaṃ)
• Maori: tāruaruatanga
• Norman: répétition f
• Occitan: repeticion (oc) f
• Persian: تکرار‎ (fa) (takrâr)
• Polish: powtórzenie (pl) n, repetycja f, powtórka (pl) f
• Portuguese: repetição (pt) f
• Romanian: repetare (ro) f, repetiție (ro) f
• Russian: повторе́ние (ru) n (povtorénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: понављање n

  Roman: ponavljanje n

• Slovak: opakovanie n
• Slovene: ponavljanje n (act), ponovitev f (instance)
• Spanish: repetición (es) f
• Swedish: repetition (sv) c, upprepning (sv) c
• Tagalog: again
• Ukrainian: повто́рення n (povtórennja)
• Welsh: ail-wneud m, ailadroddiad m (playing, singing), dychweliad m (reoccurrence)

act of repeating an exercise motion

• Bulgarian: научаване наизуст (naučavane naizust)
• Catalan: repetició (ca) f
• Finnish: toisto (fi)

• Polish: repetycja f, powtórka (pl) f
• Romanian: repetare (ro)
• Russian: повторе́ние (ru) n (povtorénije)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} herhaling (nl) f, ^{(please verify)} repetitie (nl) f
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} ആവര്‍ത്തനം (āvar‍ttanaṃ) (aavarthanam)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} repetición (es) f

See also

• have seen this movie

Etymology 2

re- +‎ petition

Alternative forms

• re-petition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːpəˈtɪʃən/

Verb

repetition (third-person singular simple present repetitions, present participle repetitioning, simple past and past participle repetitioned)

1. To petition again.
   • 2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)

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

Anagrams

• petitioner

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin repetītiō.

Noun

repetition c

1. repetition; the act of repeating
2. rehearsal

Declension

Declension of repetition
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	repetition	repetitionen	repetitioner	repetitionerna
Genitive	repetitions	repetitionens	repetitioners	repetitionernas

Derived terms

• generalrepetition

Related terms

• repetera

Further reading

• repetition in Svensk ordbok.