A repetition can consist of the appearance or display of something more than once.
Repetition is the action and effect of repeating or repeating oneself (doing or saying again what has already been done or said). The concept comes from the Latin repetitĭo.
For example: "This discussion seems like a repetition of last week's conflict," "Francisco looked at his wife and said the same thing again: the repetition of the words, this time , generated the desired effect."
Repetition on television
In the media, repetition is often used to refer to the broadcast or program that has already been broadcast previously. In this sense, repetition is the opposite of premiere: «They are again with the repetition of the World Cup final» , «Tomorrow I am going to see the repetition of the U2 concert» , «I don't know why they announce this film as a premiere, if it is nothing more than a repetition .
As a general rule, what television channels do is resort to repetitions, either when it comes to a program or a space that has been very important and that many people surely want to see again, or when something falls off the grid. and they need to fill some kind of time gap.
In this case, for example, we could emphasize that one of the small screen series that has been revived on the most occasions throughout the world is the comedy "Friends", which tells the life of several American friends who are thirty years old and who They must face all types of personal and work situations.
However, it should not be overlooked that, on other occasions, repeats are broadcast to make up the programming of "secondary" channels of the same company that do not yet have a large audience or that do not have their own products.
Reruns are common on television.
The concept in rhetoric
Repetition can also be a rhetorical figure that consists of purposely repeating words or concepts with aesthetic intent or to establish an idea: "Did you see the game?" What a good match! "I can't believe we won that game," "Juan dies, Miguel dies, Gastón dies, young people who fight for liberation always die."
The rhetorical figure consisting of the repetition of the same words (either one or more) at the beginning and at the end of one or more sentences is known as epanadiplosis or epanalepsis : "Blue like the blue sea," "Green, I love you green." » .
Repetition in art, the military field and watchmaking
In the artistic field, the term repetition is also used in another sense. Specifically, it is used to refer to that painting, drawing or sculpture that has been remade by its author. In this way, what the artist achieves with the action is to improve the work or simply offer a somewhat different variant.
In the same way, we cannot forget that within the military field there is what is known as a repeating rifle. It is a firearm whose main feature is that it is equipped with a magazine that allows various cartridges to be fired successively.
The mechanism that the watch uses to tell the time whenever a spring is touched is also called repetition.