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The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
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: The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
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Examples of repetition in a Sentence
Life is too short to spend it with repetition of old dreams that never happened.
The repetition of the process brought the same results.
Constant repetition makes it easier to learn how to spell a word.
The small town with its repetition of nice homes made it a good place to live.
The unusual language and repetition made the story seem unreal.
It is new information and not merely a repetition of what was presented in the first chapter.
The verses at the end are not much more than a repetition of the verses that are found at the beginning.
No one proofed the report before it was distributed, so nobody noticed the repetition of the two paragraphs.
Repetition - Repetition works well in a love poem.
In effect this rite was a repetition of baptism, the water of the font alone being omitted.
We have seen in Section 1 that the pulse repetition frequency (p.r.f.) is the number of pulses occurring in one second.
Lacking his intensity of passion and his admirable faculty for seizing the most evanescent shades of difference in feeling, they degenerated into colourless and lifeless insipidities made insupportable by the frigid repetition of tropes and conceits which we are fain to pardon in the master.
Tillage operations on such land are easily interrupted by rain, and the period always much limited in which they can be prosecuted at all; the compactness and toughness of the soil renders each operation more arduous, and its repetition more necessary than in the case of dry land.
Here they insisted in such cases on a repetition of the entire rite, baptism and confirmation together.
The last one bore a repetition of the inscription, which is cut on the stone in large capital letters.
The constant repetition of work caused through lack of facilities in the house make them almost beasts of burden.. .
At the diet of Augsburg in 1518 the emperor heard warnings of the Reformation in the shape of complaints against papal exactions, and a repetition of the complaints preferred at the diet of Mainz in 1517 about the administration of Germany.
When you're searching for ridiculous cat videos, be prepared for considerable repetition.
The song is appealing to kids who love counting and repetition.
The explanation could always be exact, for it was scarcely more than a repetition of the point to be explained.
Thus we get successive multiplication; but it represents quite different operations according as it is due to repetition, in the sense of § 34, or to subdivision, and these operations will be exhibited by different diagrams. Of the two diagrams below, A exhibits the successive multiplication of £3 by 20, 12 and 4, and B the successive reduction of £3 to shillings, pence and farthings.
Learning Transcendental Meditation takes a lot of practice, repetition and dedication.
When you first start your workout, lift low weights with high repetition (the number of times you lift).
Once your body has built up some muscle strength, you can start to lift heavier weight with less repetition to increase your muscle mass, which is how you bulk up.
As with anything in life, expertise comes through repetition and cake decorating is no exception.
The only downside to fan sites is that they are all competing for the same audience, with mostly the same information, so there's a lot of repetition out there.
A good amount of Green Day songs - like American Idiot - involve a lot of repetition, so if you are having trouble with a particular pattern, it might come up again in the song.
When playing longer solos, repetition can help a player keep it together.
I have plenty of "practice" now moving through these rough patches by repetition.
There is also a lot of repetition with many of the tasks in the game.
Injury occurs as a result of constant repetition of a particular movement.
If you're using print media or web content to market the product, remember repetition is important.
Use Rhymes or Repetition - Rhyming chants help a crowd remember more easily, and repetition is the easiest form of rhyming.
Slow and steady wins the race - In weightlifting techniques, each repetition should be done slowly and deliberately without any bouncing at the bottom.
In general, if you are using weight training for muscular endurance, then you will want to do high repetition, low to moderate heaviness exercises, with one to two exercises per body part.
In the Army test event, if the push up is not properly performed, the repetition is not counted.
Many soldiers push their chin up and back so that they can get their body even lower to make sure the repetition counts.
A similar kind of segregation may take place in the formation of the repeated parts of an organism, so that symmetrical repetition may be compared with normal heredity, and be due to the presence of similar factors in the divisions of the embryonic cells, whilst the differentiation of repeated parts may be due to the unequal distribution of such factors and be comparable with variation.
At the same time, he sent the famous bulls Salvator mundi, a sort of repetition of Clericis laicos, and Ausculta fili, which opened a new stage of the quarrel between the pope and king.
The method of teaching is confined to that wearisome system of loud-voiced repetition which is so annoying a feature in Indian schools; and the Koran is, of course, the text-book in all forms of education.
Instead of managing the land by the constant repetition of the same processes, by a customary immobility of tenure and service, by communalistic restrictions on private enterprise and will, local society began to try improvements, to escape from the bounds of champion farming.
S is partially identical with P. In the first the fallacy is the indifferent contingency of the conclusion caused by the non-sequitur from a negative premise to an affirmative conclusion; while the second is either a mere repetition of the premises if the conclusion means " S is like P in being M," or, if it means " S is P," a non-sequitur on account of the undistributed middle.
But to say from these premises, " God and metal are similar in what is signified by the middle term," is a mere repetition of the premises; to say, further, that " Gold may be a metal " is a non-sequitur, because, the middle being undistributed, the logical conclusion is the contingent "Gold may or may not be a metal," which leaves the question quite open, and therefore there is no syllogism.
Whilst numerous observances are recommended as more or less meritorious, the ordinary form of worship is a very simple one, consisting as it does mainly of the constant repetition of names of Krishna, or Krishna and Radha, which of itself is considered sufficient to ensure future bliss.
It was imposed by the Act of Settlement on the sovereign also, in order to make impossible any repetition of the policy of James II.
It has been impossible to avoid an air of superficiality, and the repetition of facts known to every schoolboy, in this sketch New of so complicated a subject as the Renaissance, - embracing many nations, a great variety of topics and an indefinite period of time.
In a simple interrogative sentence the introductory particle before the verb is a, and the positive answer consists in a repetition of the verb; a ddaw Dafydd ?
With George Richard Crooks (1822-1897), his colleague at Dickinson College and in1880-1897professor of historical theology at Drew Seminary, McClintock edited several elementary textbooks in Latin and Greek (of which some were republished in Spanish), based on the pedagogical principle of "imitation and constant repetition."
On the other hand, he is full of cumbrous repetition, he lacks precision in argument and is prone to digression, his quotations from Scripture are often inappropriate, and he is greatly influenced by Jewish exegesis.
Strips of paper bearing a manifold repetition of the words "The Jewel in the Lotus, Amen," are wrapped round cylinders of all sizes - from hand-mills to windor water-mills.