Repetition vs. Rhythm — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Repetition and Rhythm
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Repetition
The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry"—Liddell and Scott 1996) generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions" (Anon. 1971, 2537).
Repetition
A recitation or recital, especially of prepared or memorized material.
Rhythm
Movement or variation characterized by the regular recurrence or alternation of different quantities or conditions
The rhythm of the tides.
Repetition
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
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Rhythm
The patterned, recurring alternations of contrasting elements of sound or speech.
Repetition
(weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
Rhythm
The patterning of musical sound, as by differences in the timing, duration, or stress of consecutive notes.
Repetition
To petition again.
Rhythm
A specific kind of such patterning
A waltz rhythm.
Repetition
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.
Rhythm
A group of instruments supplying the rhythm in a band.
Repetition
Recital from memory; rehearsal.
Rhythm
The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in accentual verse or of long and short syllables in quantitative verse.
Repetition
The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
Rhythm
The similar but less formal sequence of sounds in prose.
Repetition
Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
Rhythm
A specific kind of metrical pattern or flow
Iambic rhythm.
Repetition
The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Rhythm
The sense of temporal development created in a work of literature or a film by the arrangement of formal elements such as the length of scenes, the nature and amount of dialogue, or the repetition of motifs.
Repetition
An event that repeats;
The events today were a repeat of yesterday's
Rhythm
A regular or harmonious pattern created by lines, forms, and colors in painting, sculpture, and other visual arts.
Repetition
The act of doing or performing again
Rhythm
The pattern of development produced in a literary or dramatic work by repetition of elements such as words, phrases, incidents, themes, images, and symbols.
Repetition
The repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
Rhythm
Procedure or routine characterized by regularly recurring elements, activities, or factors
The rhythm of civilization.
The rhythm of the lengthy negotiations.
Rhythm
The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
Dance to the rhythm of the music.
Rhythm
A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry
Rhythm
A flow, repetition or regularity.
Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.
Rhythm
The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
We walked with a quick, even rhythm.
Rhythm
The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm
Rhythm
A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife
Rhythm
Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy
Rhythm
A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
That girl's got rhythm, watch her dance!
Rhythm
In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.
Rhythm
Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
Rhythm
A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.
Rhythm
The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
Rhythm
The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;
The piece has a fast rhythm
The conductor set the beat
Rhythm
Recurring at regular intervals
Rhythm
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;
The neverending cycle of the seasons
Rhythm
The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements;
The rhythm of Frost's poetry
Rhythm
Natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
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