Pronunciation: (rē"ku-pich"u-lā'shun), [key] 1. the act of
recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated. 2. a brief
review or summary, as of a speech. 3. Biol.the theory that the
stages an organism passes through during its embryonic
development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change
in its ancestral lineage. 4. Music.the modified restatement of
the exposition following the development section in a sonata-
form movement. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright ©
1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.