| Recapitulation (n.) The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay. Thesaurus Entries abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, account, accounts, apocope, body count, capitulation, census, compression, condensation, conspectus, copy, core, count, critique, curtailment, dwelling upon, elaboration, elision, ellipsis, epitome, essence, foreshortening, gist, going over, head count, inventory, iteration, main point, meat, nose count, pith, practicing, precis, reaffirmation, recap, recital, reckoning, recount, recountal, recounting, reduction, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, repertory, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, retrenchment, review, run-through, rundown, shortening, statement, substance, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, summing, summing up, syncope, synopsis, telescoping, truncation |