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accelerando

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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accelerando (plural accelerandos or accelerandoes)

  1. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
  2. (music) A passage having this mark.
  3. (by extension) Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
    • 2012, George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought, p. 195:
      The accelerando of the sciences and of technology, their mathematization have beggared both the reach and the veracity of natural language.

Adverb

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accelerando (not comparable)

  1. (music) With a gradual increase in speed.

French

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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accelerando

  1. accelerando

Further reading

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian accelerando (accelerating).

Adverb

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accelerando

  1. (music) accelerando: with a gradual increase in speed.
    Synonym: dipercepat

Further reading

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Italian

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Verb

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accelerando

  1. gerund of accelerare

Adverb

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accelerando

  1. accelerating

Latin

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Participle

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accelerandō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of accelerandus

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian accelerando.

Adverb

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accelerando

  1. (music) accelerando

Swedish

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Adverb

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accelerando (not comparable)

  1. (music) accelerando

Noun

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accelerando n

  1. (music) a passage played accelerando

Declension

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