recapitulation Definition

1. An act or instance of recapitulating or summing up.
2a. biol.
The repetition, in the developmental stages of an embryo, of the stages of evolutionary development of its species;
2b. biol.
The debatable concept that ontogeny (individual development) recapitulates phylogeny (evolutionary history).
3. music.
The final repetition of themes, after development, in a movement written in sonata form.