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Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.
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.
accelerando (not comparable)
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- “accelerando”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Unadapted borrowing from Italian accelerando (“accelerating”).
accelerando
- (music) accelerando: with a gradual increase in speed.
- Synonym: dipercepat
- “accelerando” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
accelerando
- gerund of accelerare
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accelerandō
Unadapted borrowing from Italian accelerando.
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accelerando (not comparable)
accelerando n
- (music) a passage played accelerando
Declension of accelerando | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | accelerando | accelerandot | accelerandon | accelerandona |
Genitive | accelerandos | accelerandots | accelerandons | accelerandonas |