[ree-kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuh
n] 
| 1. | the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated. |
| 2. | a brief review or summary, as of a speech. |
| 3. | Biology. the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage. |
| 4. | Music. the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement. |
[ree-kuh-pich-uh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective | re·ca·pit·u·late (rē'kə-pĭch'ə-lāt') v. re·ca·pit·u·lat·ed, re·ca·pit·u·lat·ing, re·ca·pit·u·lates v. tr.
To make a summary. [Latin recapitulāre, recapitulāt- : re-, re- + capitulum, main point, heading, diminutive of caput, capit-, head; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.] re·ca·pit'u·la'tive, re·ca·pit'u·la·to'ry (-lə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj. |