different between repetition vs repeat

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??t???n/

Noun

repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)

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

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

2. (weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.

   Synonym: rep

Synonyms

• (act of repeating): See Thesaurus:repetition
• (instance of repeating): recurrence, reiteration; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence

Related terms

• repetitious

Translations

See also

• have seen this movie

Etymology 2

re- +? petition

Alternative forms

• re-petition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?p??t???n/

Verb

repetition (third-person singular simple present repetitions, present participle repetitioning, simple past and past participle repetitioned)

1. To petition again.
   • 2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)

     The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.

Anagrams

• petitioner

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin repet?ti?.

Noun

repetition c

1. repetition; the act of repeating
2. rehearsal

Declension

Derived terms

• generalrepetition

Related terms

• repetera

Further reading

• repetition in Svensk ordbok.

English

Etymology

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repet?, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /???pi?t/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /???pi?t/, /??i?pi?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Verb

repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)

1. (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
2. (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
3. (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
4. (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
5. (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
6. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
   • a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands

     He […] repeats the danger of the burning town.

7. (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
8. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.

9. To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.

Synonyms

• (to do or say again): redo, reiterate, reprise, rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate
• (to happen again): reoccur; see also Thesaurus:repeat

Related terms

• repeatedly
• repeat on
• repeat oneself
• repetition
• repetitive

Translations

Noun

repeat (plural repeats)

1. An iteration; a repetition.

2. A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
3. (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
4. (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
5. (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

Synonyms

• (iteration; repetition): reiteration, reoccurrence; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence

Derived terms

• decarepeat
• homorepeat

Translations

See also

• redundant

Anagrams

• Partee, Perate, retape