Repetition

Noun

 * 1) The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
 * : The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep. A group of repetitions is a set.

Adjectives for Repetition
insane; mannered; verbal; constant; monotonous; wholesale; frequent; musical; maddening; fine; unmeaning; steady; endless; broken; emphatic; undulating; useless; decorative; injudicious; vague; tragic; idiotic; deadly; suasive; meaningless; diverting; explanatory; forceful.

Verbs for Repetition
clamor for—; demand—; endure—; influence—; justify—; permit—; request—; stifle —; suffer—; survive—; threaten—; — bores; —emphasizes; —impresses; —irritates; —prolongs; —recalls; —refreshes; — teaches; —tires; —wearies.

Thesaurus
ceaselessness, chattering, clockwork regularity, clone, conduplication, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, copy, copying, counterfeiting, counterpart, ditto, double, doubling, dupe, duplicate, duplication, echo, echoing, emulation, endurance, evenness, extension, facsimile, fakery, following, forgery, gemination, hit-off, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, incessancy, ingemination, iteration, lengthening, maintenance, methodicalness, mimesis, mirroring, model, noninterruption, onomatopoeia, oscillation, palingenesis, parody, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, plagiarism, plagiary, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, pulsation, punctuality, pursuance, quadruplicate, quick fire, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, re-creation, re-formation, rebirth, rebuilding, recapitulation, recital, reconstitution, reconstruction, redesign, redoing, redundancies, redundancy, reduplication, reedition, reestablishment, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, regularity, rehearsal, reinstitution, reissue, reiteration, remaking, renascence, renovation, reorganization, repeat, repeating, replica, replication, representation, reprinting, reprise, reproduction, rerun, reshaping, restatement, restoration, restructuring, resurrection, retelling, revision, revival, run, simulation, smoothness, staccato, staying power, steadiness, straight course, stuttering, sustained action, sustainment, sustenance, systematicalness, takeoff, tattoo, tautologies, tautology, triplicate, twinning, uniformity, unintermission, uninterrupted course, uninterruption, unremittingness, vibration, way

Pronunciation

 * IPA:/rɛpəˈtɪʃən/

Etymology
From repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio).

Translations

 * Catalan: repetició
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:,   ismétlődés


 * Italian:
 * Romanian: repetare, repetiție
 * Slovene: (act),  (instance)
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: repetició


 * Finnish:

Related terms

 * repetitious

Anagrams

 * petitioner

Noun

 * 1) repetition; the act of repeating
 * 2) rehearsal

Derived terms

 * generalrepetition