transcription, транскрипция: [ ri:kəpɪtʃʊleɪt ]
( recapitulates, recapitulating, recapitulated)
You can say that you are going to recapitulate the main points of an explanation, argument, or description when you want to draw attention to the fact that you are going to repeat the most important points as a summary.
Let’s just recapitulate the essential points...
It will shortly be put up for sale under the terms already communicated to you, which, to recapitulate, call for a very minimum of publicity.
= recap, sum up
VERB : V n , V
• re‧ca‧pitu‧la‧tion
Chapter 9 provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
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