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repetition

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rep⋅e⋅ti⋅tion

  [rep-i-tish-uhn]
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–noun
1. the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
2. repeated utterance; reiteration.
3. something made by or resulting from repeating.
4. a reproduction, copy, or replica.
5. Civil Law. an action or demand for the recovery of a payment or delivery made by error or upon failure to fulfill a condition.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME (< OF repeticion) < L repetītiōn- (s. of repetītiō), equiv. to repetīt(us) (ptp. of repetere to repeat ) + -iōn- -ion
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rep·e·ti·tion   (rěp'ĭ-tĭsh'ən)   
n.  

  1. The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated.

  2. A recitation or recital, especially of prepared or memorized material.


[Middle English repeticioun, from Old French repeticion, from Latin repetītiō, repetītiōn-, from repetītus, past participle of repetere, to repeat; see repeat.]
rep'e·ti'tion·al adj.
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repetition 
1526, "act of saying over again," from L. repetitionem (nom. repetitio), from repetitus, pp. of repetere "do or say again" (see repeat). Of actions, attested from 1597. Repetitious is recorded from 1675; repetitive is from 1839.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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