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repetition

UK/ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/US/ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,623 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: repetitions

Repetition is doing or saying something over again. Endless repetition, avoid repetition, learn by repetition.

It is how almost all skill is built, from a language to a golf swing, and spacing the repetition out over days works far better than massing it in one session. In writing it is usually a fault, except where it is deliberate and rhetorical.

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Definitions of repetition

  1. 1nounrepetitionDoing or saying something over again.B2

    “Learning to play the piano takes a lot of patience and repetition.”

repetition is a doing again.

Where it comes from

Latin repetitio comes from repetere, to seek again — re, again, plus petere, to seek.

  1. Latin

    repetitionem

  2. English, today

    repetition

Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). a doublet of repetitio. by surface analysis, en + repeat + -ition.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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repetition in the wild

  • The use of spaced repetition has been proven to increase the rate of learning.

    Spaced repetition

  • A number of spaced repetition software programs have been developed to aid the learning process.

    Spaced repetition

  • In chess, the threefold repetition rule states that a player may claim a draw if the same position occurs three times during the game.

    Threefold repetition

  • The rule is also known as repetition of position and, in the USCF rules, as triple occurrence of position.

    Threefold repetition

  • The pulse-repetition frequency (PRF) is the number of pulses of a repeating signal in a specific time unit.

    Pulse-repetition frequency

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Related words

  • repeat