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Reiteration

Reiteration \Re*it`er*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]it['e]ration.] The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reiteration

early 15c., from Middle French reiteration and directly from Latin reiterationem (nominative reiteratio) "repetition," noun of action from past participle stem of reiterare (see reiterate).

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reiteration

n. 1 The act of reiterate. 2 Something reiterated or restated.

WordNet
reiteration

n. the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) [syn: reduplication]

Wikipedia
Reiteration

Reiteration is making an iteration again and again. It may refer to:

  • Tremolo, a trembling effect in music
  • Reiteration, a virtual rule of inference in mathematical logic

Usage examples of "reiteration".

The only reply that the experimenter could give was a reiteration of faith in the working of the apparatus.

Reiteration and circulation slowly did their work, and gradually a slim backward trickle of urbanites swelled into a vigorous refluent stream.

Because, like all other groups, the socialists tend to become routineers, to slip into an easy reiteration.

In less than an hour the astonishing array of tropical life-forms, the knitted texture of an organic art, was reduced to the numbing reiteration of your own plodding feet, the complex orchestration of animal and insect sound condensed to the chuffing of your own breath in your own sea-throbbing ear.

For the strenuous and important role imposed upon him at that time, seemingly sent his way by sheer chance, in fact so closely corresponded with his whole nature that we are tempted to say his later life was nothing but a reiteration of this role, an ever more perfect adaptation to it.

Within the priest's fervent exclamatory credos, within their awesome reiterations, there was a kind of strange eldritch beauty, like the terrible beauty of an approaching storm out of the high hills.

On the third reiteration, as the brazen voice repeated the names of specific women and the names of the men who had taken the women and the reason the women had been taken, even the machine had difficulty outshouting the uproar.

In the pear tree the mockingbirds idiot reiteration pulsed and purled.

A valuable resource, Zee, his constant reiterations of a vast plot encompassing every event from Pearl Harbor to the last satellite shutdown balanced by the fact that he kept his eyes open.

The story they told of the battle was one which had many shameful reiterations during the war.

And indeed, he never would, not in a thousand reiterations of the same sequence.

Not knowing who told who more than one or two reiterations ago may be frustrating, but it certainly makes things safer for all of us.