repetition

See also: répétition

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, [ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.n̩]

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (Indic) IPA^(key): /rɪˈpiːʈiʃən/

Noun

repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)

1. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
   • 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:

     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:

     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

Derived terms

• pulse repetition time
• repetition time
• spaced repetition

Related terms

• repetitious

Translations

act or an instance of repeating or being repeated

• Albanian: përsëritje (sq) f
• Arabic: تَكْرَار m (takrār), إِعَادَة f (ʔiʕāda)
• Armenian: կրկնություն (hy) (krknutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: təkrar
• Bashkir: ҡабатлау (qabatlaw)
• Belarusian: паўтарэ́нне n (paŭtarénnje)
• Bulgarian: повторе́ние (bg) n (povtorénie)
• Catalan: repetició (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重複 / 重复 (zh) (chóngfù)

• Czech: opakování (cs) n
• Danish: gentagelse (da) c
• Dutch: herhaling (nl) f
• Estonian: kordamine
• 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: חֲזָרָה f (khazará)
• Hungarian: (from a transitive verb) ismétlés (hu), (from an intransitive verb) ismétlődés (hu)
• 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)
• Kazakh: қайталау (qaitalau)
• Korean: 되풀이 (doepuri), 반복(反復) (ko) (banbok)
• Kyrgyz: кайталоо (ky) (kaytaloo)
• Latin: repetītiō f, iterātiō f
• Latvian: atkārtojums m
• Lithuanian: kartojimas m
• Macedonian: повторување n (povtoruvanje)
• Malayalam: ആവർത്തനം (ml) (āvaṟttanaṁ)
• Maori: tāruaruatanga
• Marathi: पुनरावृत्ती f (punrāvruttī)
• Norman: répétition f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjentakelse m

• 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
• Tajik: такрор (takror)
• Turkish: tekrarlama (tr), tekrar (tr)
• Ukrainian: повто́рення n (povtórennja)
• Uzbek: qaytariq (uz), takror (uz)
• Welsh: ail-wneud m, ailadroddiad m (playing, singing), dychweliad m (reoccurrence)

act of repeating an exercise motion

• Bulgarian: науча́ване наизу́ст n (naučávane naizúst)
• Catalan: repetició (ca) f
• Finnish: toisto (fi)
• Polish: repetycja f, powtórka (pl) f
• Romanian: repetare (ro)
• Russian: повторе́ние (ru) n (povtorénije), зау́чивание наизу́сть n (zaúčivanije naizústʹ)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. 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)} ആവർത്തനം (āvaṟttanaṁ)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} repetición (es) f

See also

• have seen this movie

Etymology 2

From re- +‎ petition.

Alternative forms

• re-petition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːpəˈtɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin repetītiō.

Noun

repetition c

1. repetition; the act of repeating
2. rehearsal

Declension

Declension of repetition

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	repetition	repetitions
	definite	repetitionen	repetitionens
plural	indefinite	repetitioner	repetitioners
	definite	repetitionerna	repetitionernas

Derived terms

• generalrepetition

Related terms

• repetera

Further reading

• repetition in Svensk ordbok.