1the action of repeating something that has already been said or written:her comments are worthy of repetition [count noun]:a repetition of his reply to the delegation
[count noun] archaic a piece set by a teacher to be learned by heart and recited.
2 [often with negative] the recurrence of an action or event:there was to be no repetition of the interwar years [count noun]:I didn’t want a repetition of the scene in my office that morning
[count noun] a thing repeated:the geometric repetitions of Islamic art
[count noun] a training exercise which is repeated, especially a series of repeated raisings and lowerings of the weight in weight training:lie on your back and bench-press a light weight very quickly over ten repetitions
Music the repeating of a passage or note:the tune is full of melodic repetition and sequence
