repeat

[REPEAT, v.] *I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of repeating; repetition. "So of this repeat enough." Chapman: Homer's Iliad, xvi. 57. 2. That which is repeated. II. Music : A sign that a movement or part of a movement is to be twice performed. That which is to be repeated is generally included within dots in the spaces. When the performer does not, on repeating, go so far as the last dot-sign, but finishes at a previous cadence, it is usual to write over the repeat, Da Capo , placing a pause and Fine over the chord at which the performer is to stop. If the signs of tion of movement the sign is sometimes added. the repeat do not coincide with a well-defined por For explanation of the mark & see SEGNO. rě-peat-ěd, pa . par . or a. [REPEAT, v.] rě-peat-ěd-ly, adv . [ Eng.repeated ; -ly.] With repetitions; more than once; over and over again; frequently, indefinitely. "The debate on this motion was repeatedly adjourned." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiv.