From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repetition \Rep'e*ti"tion\ (r[e^]p'[-e]-t[i^]sh"[u^]n), noun [L. repetitio: cf. F. r['e]p['e]tition. See {Repeat}.]
1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. --Shak.
2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
3. (Mus.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
4. (Rhet.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
5. (Astron. & Surv.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Syn: Iteration; rehearsal. See {Tautology}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" [syn: {repeat}]
2: the act of doing or performing again [syn: {repeating}]
3: the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "repetition": ceaselessness, chattering, clockwork regularity, clone, conduplication, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, copy, copying, counterfeiting, counterpart, ditto, double, doubling, dupe, duplicate, duplication, echo, echoing, emulation, endurance, evenness, extension, facsimile, fakery, following, forgery, gemination, hit-off, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, incessancy, ingemination, iteration, lengthening, maintenance, methodicalness, mimesis, mirroring, model, noninterruption, onomatopoeia, oscillation, palingenesis, parody, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, plagiarism, plagiary, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, pulsation, punctuality, pursuance, quadruplicate, quick fire, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, re-creation, re-formation, rebirth, rebuilding, recapitulation, recital, reconstitution, reconstruction, redesign, redoing, redundancies, redundancy, reduplication, reedition, reestablishment, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, regularity, rehearsal, reinstitution, reissue, reiteration, remaking, renascence, renovation, reorganization, repeat, repeating, replica, replication, representation, reprinting, reprise, reproduction, rerun, reshaping, restatement, restoration, restructuring, resurrection, retelling, revision, revival, run, simulation, smoothness, staccato, staying power, steadiness, straight course, stuttering, sustained action, sustainment, sustenance, systematicalness, takeoff, tattoo, tautologies, tautology, triplicate, twinning, uniformity, unintermission, uninterrupted course, uninterruption, unremittingness, vibration, way
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