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recapitulation

14 letters · 11 distinct letters

  1. noun

    emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

  2. noun

    (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

  3. noun

    a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion

  4. noun

    (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)

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