the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.

a brief review or summary, as of a speech.

Biology . the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage.

Music . the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement.

noun

rundown , run-through , sum , summation , summing-up , wrap-up , peroration , rsum , reprise , summary