repetition

«repetition» in Mova's school dictionary: Doing or saying something again and again: Learning times… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (repetition, repetitions)

meaning for a pupil

1) Doing or saying something again and again: Learning times tables needs repetition. tree →

2) One time of doing an exercise in a set: 10 repetitions (reps) of star jumps. tree →

3) A thing that is repeated: «Avoid repetition in your writing». tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, repetition builds fluency; repeated addition is how multiplication starts: 4 + 4 + 4 = 3 × 4. Patterns grow by repetition of a unit. In PE, «reps» are repetitions of an exercise. In writing lessons, repetition can be a poem's tool or a weakness. Phrases: «by repetition», «avoid repetition», «reps», «repetition of a pattern».

examples

• Repetition helps you remember spelling words. tree →
• Do 3 sets of 10 repetitions — 30 star jumps in all. tree →
• Multiplication is a repetition of addition. tree →
• The poem uses repetition: «Run, run, run!» tree →
• Try to avoid repetition in your story. tree →
• The wallpaper has a repetition of stars. tree →
• We don't want a repetition of last year's mess! tree →
• Strukis awoke in time to upset the fisherman's boat; but fearing a repetition of the attempt, it now changes each year the hour of its annual sleep. tree →

note

Uncountable (the idea) or countable (each time). Short form: rep, reps (informal, sport). Verb: repeat; adjective: repetitive. Spelling: rep-E-ti-tion — not «repitition». In maths: total = number of repetitions × amount each time.

In the corpora

• Repetition can build suspense and make time feel slow.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «repetition» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.