repetition

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
2. n. A recitation or recital, especially of prepared or memorized material.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of repeating, in any sense; iteration of the same act, word, sound, or idea.
2. n. Ye haue another sort of repetition when in one verse or clause of a verse ye iterate one word without any intermission, as thus: It was Maryne, Maryne that wrought mine woe.
3. n. That which is repeated.
4. n. Remembrance; recollection.
5. n. In Scots law, repayment of money erroneously paid.
6. n. Specifically, in music, the rapid reiteration or repercussion of a tone or chord, so as to produce a sustained effect, as upon the pianoforte and other stringed instruments.
7. n. Same as repeating action (which see, under repeat).
8. n. in mathematics, a partition in which a number occurs r times. Thus, 2 + 2 + 2 + 5 is a repetition of 3.
9. n. Synonyms and See recapitulate and pleonasm.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
2. n. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
3. n. (Mus.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
4. n. (Rhet.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
5. n. (Astron. & Surv.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an event that repeats
2. n. the act of doing or performing again
3. n. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device