accelerando

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin accelero.

Pronunciation

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Noun

accelerando (plural accelerandos)

  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

accelerando (not comparable)

  1. (music) with a gradual increase in speed

French

Adverb

accelerando

  1. accelerando

Italian

Verb

accelerando

  1. gerund of accelerare

Adverb

accelerando

  1. accelerating

Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) accelerandō

  1. dative masculine singular of accelerandus
  2. dative neuter singular of accelerandus
  3. ablative masculine singular of accelerandus
  4. ablative neuter singular of accelerandus
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