repetition

See also: répétition

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛpəˈtɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

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NounEdit

repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)

1. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:

     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; also called a rep. A group of repetitions is a set.

TranslationsEdit

act or an instance of repeating or being repeated

• Arabic: تَكْرَار‎ m (takrār), إِعَادَة‎ f (ʾiʿāda)
• Belarusian: паўтарэ́нне n (paŭtarénnje)
• Catalan: repetició (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: opakování n
• Dutch: herhaling (nl) f
• Finnish: kertaus (fi), toisto (fi)
• French: répétition (fr) f
• Georgian: გამეორება (gameoreba)
• German: Wiederholung (de) f, Repetition f
• Greek: επανάληψη (el) f (epanálipsi)
• Hebrew: חזרה‎ f (chazará)
• Hungarian: (from a transitive verb) ismétlés (hu), (from an intransitive verb) ismétlődés

• Ido: itero (io)
• Italian: ripetizione (it) f
• Japanese: 繰り返し (くりかえし, kurikaeshi)
• Korean: 되풀이 (doepuri)
• Norman: répétition f
• Persian: تکرار‎ (fa) (takrâr)
• Portuguese: repetição (pt) f
• Romanian: repetare (ro) f, repetiție (ro) f
• Russian: повторе́ние (ru) n (povtorénije)
• Slovene: ponavljanje n (act), ponovitev f (instance)
• Spanish: repetición (es) f
• Swedish: repetition (sv) c
• Tagalog: again

act of repeating an exercise motion

• Catalan: repetició (ca) f
• Finnish: toisto (fi)

• 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 f, ^{(please verify)} repetitie f
• Malayalam: ആവര്‍ത്തനം (aavarthanam)

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

Related termsEdit

• repetitious

See alsoEdit

• have seen this movie

Etymology 2Edit

re- +‎ petition

VerbEdit

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.

AnagramsEdit

• petitioner

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

repetition c

1. repetition; the act of repeating
2. rehearsal

DeclensionEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

• generalrepetition