rehearsal

noun3

1. •
   a meeting where performers go through a show to get it ready for an audience
2. •
   A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal.

   • The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.
3. •
   The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.

   • The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.