repetition

1. 1

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

   • 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.
   • The Lectures were a novelty in German philosophy, dominated as it was by the categories of Kant and Hegel, but to the rest of Europe they were merely a repetition of well-known theories.
2. 2

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

syn. reiteration · repetition · reprise

1. 1

   To petition again.

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