accelerando
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.
Pronunciation
Noun
accelerando (plural accelerandos or accelerandoes)
- (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
- (music) A passage having this mark.
- (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
accelerando (not comparable)
Pronunciation
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Adverb
accelerando
Further reading
- “accelerando”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Verb
accelerando
- gerund of accelerare
Adverb
accelerando
Participle
accelerandō
Etymology
Adverb
accelerando
Adverb
accelerando (not comparable)
Noun
accelerando n
- (music) a passage played accelerando
Declension
| Declension of accelerando | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | accelerando | accelerandot | accelerandon | accelerandona |
| Genitive | accelerandos | accelerandots | accelerandons | accelerandonas |
References
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