In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.

Commercial advertisers often seek to generate increased consumption of their products or services through " branding ," which involves the repetition of an image or product name in an effort to associate certain qualities with the brand in the minds of consumers.

Whether the adoption of the classical Alexander for the future Alexander I of Scotland ( either for Pope Alexander II or for Alexander the Great ) and the biblical David for the future David I of Scotland represented a recognition that William of Normandy would not be easily removed, or was due to the repetition of Anglo-Saxon Royal name — another Edmund had preceded Edgar — is not known.

( The usual formation is dam ; da is used in Sma's name because the house name begins with an M, eliding an awkward phoneme repetition.

This repetition of given name and surname throughout the generations may at least partially account for the legend of his longevity, especially as it is believed that many of his children pursued careers as priests in mystery religions.

Though the repetition of the same name in every other generation is common in Greece, there is no certain evidence for either position.

In order to avoid repetition of subjects, and also to expose the many spurious copies of his works, he made tinted outline drawings ( in six paper books prepared for this purpose ) of all those pictures sent to different countries ; and on the back of each drawing he wrote the name of the purchaser.

According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the name of this priesthood became Melchizedek " because Melchizedek was such a great high priest " and " to avoid the too frequent repetition " of the " name of the Supreme Being ".

He taught that Lord Rama is the supreme Lord, and that salvation could be attained only through love for and devotion to him, and through the repetition of his sacred name.

The repetition of the species name is referred to in botanical nomenclature as the subspecies " autonym ", and the subspecies as the " autonymous subspecies ".

" As taught by Nan Huaijin, the name of Amitābha Buddha is recited slowly, and the mind is emptied out after each repetition.

Being chased by the soviets in 1919 he changed his noble family name into Badalyan ( from the Persian word “ Bedal ” which means repetition ).

Hoping to avoid repetition of the succession crisis that had tainted his own accession to the throne, he had the name of his successor placed in a sealed box secured behind the tablet over the throne in the Palace of Heavenly Purity ( Qianqing Gong 乾清宮 ).

Later, in 1768, Philip Miller concluded it was sufficiently distinct from Rhamnus to merit separation into a new genus, in which he named it Ziziphus jujube, using Linnaeus ' species name for the genus but with a probably accidental single letter spelling difference, ' i ' for ' y '; for the species name he used a different name, as tautonyms ( repetition of exactly the same name in the genus and species ) are not permitted in botanical naming.

" In the context of Pure Land practice, it generally refers to the repetition of the name of Amitābha Buddha.

The name is based on a mistranslation: in Mexican Spanish, the prefix re is an informal form of emphasis meaning " very " or " well ", which has been confused with the English re and the most common use of the Spanish ( Latin ) prefix re outside Mexico, which more often indicates repetition.

: Speaks entirely through repetition of her own name (" Manyo!

: Speaks entirely through repetition of her own name (" Monyo!

: Speaks entirely through repetition of her own name (" Munyo!

This priesthood was so named, according to a revelation, because Melchizedek " was such a great high priest " and ".. out of respect or reverence to the name of the Supreme Being, to avoid the too frequent repetition of his name ..." This priesthood was thought to be the order of priesthood held by Jesus, and a distinction was made between the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods, which derives in part from the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose author argues that Jesus arose " after the order of Melchizedec, and not ... after the order of Aaron.

One species of ambiguity tries to baffle by interweaving repetition.

This public interest is usually satisfied by preventing a continuation or repetition of the offence on the same victim.

Pius X was probably influenced by earlier attempts to eliminate repetition in the psalter, most notably the liturgy of the Benedictine congregation of St. Maur.

( Science and Health, page 35 ) There are no rituals in the Christian Science church, but at the communion service, held twice a year, those in attendance are invited to kneel for silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer.

Pascal's Calculator could add and subtract two numbers directly and multiply and divide by repetition.

Forgetting can be reduced by repetition and / or more elaborate cognitive processing of information.

The design of the first Stars and Stripes by Hopkinson had the thirteen stars arranged in a " staggered " pattern technically known as quincuncial because it is based on the repetition of a motif of five units.

The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.

It appears that the particularity of the term Hesychast has to do with the integration of the continual repetition of the Jesus Prayer into the practices of mental ascesis that were already used by hermits in Egypt.

What this means is that by the exercise of sobriety ( the mental ascesis against tempting thoughts ), the Hesychast arrives at a continual practice of the Jesus Prayer with his mind in his heart and where his consciousness is no longer encumbered by the spontaneous inception of images: his mind has a certain stillness and emptiness that is punctuated only by the eternal repetition of the Jesus Prayer.

The notion of idempotence at the end of a chain of operations was applied to so-called " desired-outcome " functions in the widely used configuration management software Cfengine in 1993, changing the industry approach to datacenter automation by bringing " self-healing " by simple repetition with a predictable outcome.

But Hitler, supported by Göring, resisted these demands, which he feared would weaken civilian morale and lead to a repetition of the debacle of 1918, when the German army had been undermined ( in Hitler's view ) by a collapse of the home front.

Although some of his pieces sound similar to those written by minimalist composers, Adams actually rejects the idea of mechanistic procedure-based or process music ; what Adams took away from minimalism was tonality and / or modality, and the rhythmic energy from repetition.

Oddly enough, his music of the 1990s slowly starts to incorporate it more and more to the point where one critic believes this slowly increasing incorporation of minimalism " represents a coming to terms with minimalism according to a decidedly tonal slant: pulse and repetition have been transmuted, by a kind of reverse-chronological alchemy, into devices of familiar from earlier eras, such as moto perpetuo and ostinato.

# The recipient: a repetition of the response followed by who?

Since the pulse energy is equal to the average power divided by the repetition rate, this goal can sometimes be satisfied by lowering the rate of pulses so that more energy can be built up in between pulses.

Additionally, Law 42. 6 ( a ) includes: " The bowling of fast short pitched balls is dangerous and unfair if the umpire at the bowler's end considers that by their repetition and taking into account their length, height and direction they are likely to inflict physical injury on the striker ..."

Murray Louis and his dance company appeared at the Henry Street Playhouse on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons in the premiere of his latest work, `` Signal '', and the repetition of an earlier one, `` Journal ''.

He cupped his ear and shook his head at her repetition, announcing in a nettled way that he had heard her the first time.

In music, a fugue ( ) is a compositional technique ( in classical music ) in two or more voices, built on a subject ( theme ) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation ( repetition at different pitches ) and recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

Without the use of spaced repetition, the reader would quickly get lost in the glut of information when studying dozens of subjects at the same time.

Pulsed operation of lasers refers to any laser not classified as continuous wave, so that the optical power appears in pulses of some duration at some repetition rate.

In practice, LORAN is implemented in integrated regional arrays, or chains, consisting of one primary station and at least two ( but often more ) secondary stations, with a uniform group repetition interval ( GRI ) defined in microseconds.

The reason for this is that such languages have at most one implementation of any method at any level in the inheritance chain regardless of the repetition or placement of methods.

Alliteration is the repetition of sounds in a sentence or clause ; those sounds usually come at the beginning of words.

To enable the user to reach a target level of achievement ( e. g. 90 % of all material correctly recalled at any given time point ), the software adjusts the repetition spacing interval.

The lexical aspect focuses on sense relations and lexical repetitions, while the grammatical aspect looks at repetition of meaning shown through reference, substitution and ellipsis, as well as the role of linking adverbials.

However, a literary evaluation of Lucretius ' work reveals some repetition and a sudden end to Book 6 during a description of the plague at Athens.

Pulse dialing, dial pulse, or loop disconnect dialing, also called rotary or decadic dialling in the United Kingdom ( because up to 10 pulses are sent ), is pulsing in which a direct-current pulse train is produced by interrupting a steady signal according to a fixed or formatted code for each digit and at a standard pulse repetition rate.

In telecommunications, a digital multiplex hierarchy is a hierarchy consisting of an ordered repetition of tandem digital multiplexers that produce signals of successively higher data rates at each level of the hierarchy.

Note that only one machine can ever give a wrong answer, and the chance of that machine giving the wrong answer during each repetition is at most 50 %.

Alliteration is usually distinguished as and within, from the mere repetition of the same sound at positions other than the beginning of each word — whether a consonant, as in " some mammals are clammy " ( consonance ) or a vowel, as in " yellow wedding bells " ( assonance ); but the term is sometimes used in these broader senses.

* symploce: Simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe: the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning and the end of successive clauses

Plots are frequently cyclical: for example, Endgame begins where the play ended – at the beginning of the play, Clov says, " Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished " – and themes of cycle, routine, and repetition are explored throughout.

In switching applications modern devices boast pulse repetition rates well into the ultrasonic range — frequencies which are at least ten times the highest audio frequency handled by the device when used as an analog audio amplifier.