repetition

UK /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/ US /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
noun 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.

How we hope and believe each day will be our last of anxious waiting! The post comes in, and there is no letter for us. How bitter is the disappointment! and on every repetition it grows more acute.

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

The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.

verb

1

To petition again.

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

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