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Noun: repetition  `re-pi'ti-shun
  1. Something that is repeated
    "the events today were a repetition of yesterday's"
    - repeat
     
  2. The act of doing or performing again
    - repeating
     
  3. The repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

Derived forms: repetitions

See also: repeat, repetitious

Type of: continuance, continuation, periodic event, recurrent event, rhetorical device

Encyclopedia: Repetition