recapitulateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Canada, 英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹiːkəˈpɪtʃʊleɪt/

動詞

recapitulate (三人称単数 現在形 recapitulates, 現在分詞 recapitulating, 過去形および過去分詞形 recapitulated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.

   The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.

   We still have five minutes left, so let's recapitulate the lecture.

2. (transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure または function).
3. (transitive) (biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
   • 1997 May, G. A. Bray, “Growth of a Molecular Base for Feeding”, in Obesity Research, volume 5, number 3, page 272:

     Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development.

同意語

• (to summarize または repeat in concise form): recap, sum up

派生語

関連する語

• capitulate

Further reading

• “recapitulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “recapitulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “recapitulate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• catapleurite

Latin

動詞

recapitulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recapitulō