Recapitulate
verb
To summarize or repeat the main points of something.
At the end of the lecture, the professor recapitulated the major themes.
Often appears as...
- recapitulate the argument
- recapitulate the main points
verb
In biology, to repeat stages of evolution during the embryonic development of an organism.
It is believed by some scientists that the human embryo recapitulates the stages of evolutionary history.
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Technical
verb
In music, to restate previous thematic material at the end of a composition or section.
In a sonata form, the recapitulation is the section where the exposition is restated.
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To summarize or repeat the main points of something.
At the end of the lecture, the professor recapitulated the major themes.
Often appears as...
- recapitulate the argument
- recapitulate the main points
verb
In biology, to repeat stages of evolution during the embryonic development of an organism.
It is believed by some scientists that the human embryo recapitulates the stages of evolutionary history.
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In music, to restate previous thematic material at the end of a composition or section.
In a sonata form, the recapitulation is the section where the exposition is restated.
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Clarity Purpose
Use 'recapitulate' when summarizing to clarify or highlight the main ideas after a detailed discussion.
Before we adjourn, let's recapitulate today's key points.
Pro Tip 2/3Speeches & Presentations
'Recapitulate' is often used at the end of speeches or presentations to reinforce the core message.
To recapitulate, our strategic plan focuses on growth, quality, and customer satisfaction.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Closure
Using 'recapitulate' suggests a final repetition; it indicates you're summarizing before concluding.
She recapitulated the findings before ending her lecture.
Pro Tip 1/3Clarity Purpose
Use 'recapitulate' when summarizing to clarify or highlight the main ideas after a detailed discussion.
Before we adjourn, let's recapitulate today's key points.
Pro Tip 2/3Speeches & Presentations
'Recapitulate' is often used at the end of speeches or presentations to reinforce the core message.
To recapitulate, our strategic plan focuses on growth, quality, and customer satisfaction.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Closure
Using 'recapitulate' suggests a final repetition; it indicates you're summarizing before concluding.
She recapitulated the findings before ending her lecture.
Pro Tip 1/3Clarity Purpose
Use 'recapitulate' when summarizing to clarify or highlight the main ideas after a detailed discussion.
Before we adjourn, let's recapitulate today's key points.
Pro Tip 2/3Speeches & Presentations
'Recapitulate' is often used at the end of speeches or presentations to reinforce the core message.
To recapitulate, our strategic plan focuses on growth, quality, and customer satisfaction.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Closure
Using 'recapitulate' suggests a final repetition; it indicates you're summarizing before concluding.
She recapitulated the findings before ending her lecture.
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How early life...
that recapitulates what happens in humans. In humans, you're in high school, some friends suggest you use some cocaine, you take cocaine, nothing happens. Months pass by, something reminds you of what happened the first time, a pusher pushes cocaine, and you become addicted and your life has changed. In rats, we do the same thing.
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Susan Solomon: The...
were dying in the disease. So basically what he did was to take a healthy cell and turn it into a sick cell, and he recapitulated the disease over and over again in the dish, and this was extraordinary, because it was the first time that we had a model of a disease from a living patient in living human cells.
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A light switch for...
until he finally gets to the platform so he's not using vision to do it these different mice are different mutations that recapitulate different kinds of blindness that that affect humans and sort of being careful and trying to look at these different models so we come with a generalized approach so how are
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Ed Boyden: A light...
Mice are smart, so this one solves the maze eventually, but he does a brute-force search. He's swimming down every avenue until he finally gets to the platform. He's not using vision to do it. These different mice are different mutations that recapitulate different kinds of blindness that affect humans.
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Paul Rothemund: The...
So, this sort of recapitulates what I was telling you about development. You have a very sensitive computer program where small changes -- single, tiny, little mutations -- can take something that made one size square and make something very much bigger.
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Averting the climate...
recapitulate just four or five now oh the slideshow I update the slideshow every time I give it I add new images because I learned more about it every time I give it it's like beachcombing you know every time the tide comes in and out you find
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What hallucination...
Well, I've more or less said what I wanted. I think I just want to recapitulate and say this is common. Think of the number of blind people. There must be hundreds of thousands of blind people who have these hallucinations
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Martine Rothblatt: My...
and all of this information stored there will be able, in the next couple decades, once software is able to recapitulate consciousness, be able to revive the consciousness which is imminent in our mind file.
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Richard Preston:...
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights.
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Averting the climate...
I'm going to show some new images, and I'm going to recapitulate just four or five. Now, the slide show. I update the slide show every time I give it. I add new images,
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How early life...
that recapitulates what happens in humans. In humans, you're in high school, some friends suggest you use some cocaine, you take cocaine, nothing happens. Months pass by, something reminds you of what happened the first time, a pusher pushes cocaine, and you become addicted and your life has changed. In rats, we do the same thing.
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Susan Solomon: The...
were dying in the disease. So basically what he did was to take a healthy cell and turn it into a sick cell, and he recapitulated the disease over and over again in the dish, and this was extraordinary, because it was the first time that we had a model of a disease from a living patient in living human cells.
Video examples
A light switch for...
until he finally gets to the platform so he's not using vision to do it these different mice are different mutations that recapitulate different kinds of blindness that that affect humans and sort of being careful and trying to look at these different models so we come with a generalized approach so how are
Video examples
Ed Boyden: A light...
Mice are smart, so this one solves the maze eventually, but he does a brute-force search. He's swimming down every avenue until he finally gets to the platform. He's not using vision to do it. These different mice are different mutations that recapitulate different kinds of blindness that affect humans.
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Paul Rothemund: The...
So, this sort of recapitulates what I was telling you about development. You have a very sensitive computer program where small changes -- single, tiny, little mutations -- can take something that made one size square and make something very much bigger.
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Averting the climate...
recapitulate just four or five now oh the slideshow I update the slideshow every time I give it I add new images because I learned more about it every time I give it it's like beachcombing you know every time the tide comes in and out you find
Video examples
What hallucination...
Well, I've more or less said what I wanted. I think I just want to recapitulate and say this is common. Think of the number of blind people. There must be hundreds of thousands of blind people who have these hallucinations
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Martine Rothblatt: My...
and all of this information stored there will be able, in the next couple decades, once software is able to recapitulate consciousness, be able to revive the consciousness which is imminent in our mind file.
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Richard Preston:...
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights.
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Averting the climate...
I'm going to show some new images, and I'm going to recapitulate just four or five. Now, the slide show. I update the slide show every time I give it. I add new images,
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Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.
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Richard Preston
American Writer
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.
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Charles Murray
American Scientist
Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message.
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Mark Leyner
American Author
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.
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Julia Holter
American Musician
One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.
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Julia Holter
American Musician
Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.
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Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.
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Richard Preston
American Writer
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.
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Charles Murray
American Scientist
Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message.
Quote examples
Mark Leyner
American Author
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.
Quote examples
Julia Holter
American Musician
One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.
Quote examples
Julia Holter
American Musician
Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.
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