repetition

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛpəˈtɪʃən/

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repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)

1. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0147:

     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

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

• repetitious

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re- +‎ petition

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.

• petitioner

repetition c

1. repetition; the act of repeating
2. rehearsal

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