repetition

See also répétition

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA:/rɛpəˈtɪʃən/

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Etymology

From Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio).

Noun

repetition (plural repetitions)

1. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
2. (weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep. A group of repetitions is a set.

Translations

act or an instance of repeating or being repeated

• Arabic: تكرار (ar) (takrār) m, إعادة (ar) (ʾiʿāda) f
• Catalan: repetició (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重複 (cmn), 重复 (cmn) (chóngfù)

• Czech: opakování (cs) n
• Dutch: herhaling (nl) f
• Finnish: kertaus (fi)
• French: répétition (fr) f
• German: Wiederholung (de) f, Repetition (de) f
• Hebrew: חזרה (he) (chazará) f
• Hungarian: (from a transitive verb) ismétlés (hu), (from an intransitive verb) ismétlődés (hu)

• Italian: ripetizione (it) f
• Japanese: 繰り返し (ja) (くりかえし, kurikaeshi)
• Jèrriais: répétition f
• Korean: 되풀이 (ko) (doepuri)
• Persian: تکرار (fa) (takrâr)
• Romanian: repetare (ro) f, repetiție (ro) f
• Russian: повторение (ru) (povtorénije) n
• Slovene: ponavljanje (sl) n (act), ponovitev (sl) f (instance)
• Spanish: repetición (es) f
• Swedish: repetition (sv) c

act of repeating an exercise motion

• Catalan: repetició (ca) f
• Finnish: toisto (fi)

• Romanian: repetare (ro)
• Russian: повторение (ru) (povtorénije) n

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: herhaling f, repetitie f
• French: répétition f
• German: Wiederholung f
• Malayalam: ആവര്‍ത്തനം (aavarthanam)
• Spanish: repetición f

Related terms

• repetitious

Anagrams

• petitioner

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Swedish

Noun

repetition c

1. repetition; the act of repeating
2. rehearsal

Declension

Declension of repetition

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	repetition	repetitionen	repetitioner	repetitionerna
genitive	repetitions	repetitionens	repetitioners	repetitionernas

Derived terms

• generalrepetition