accelerando
advEtymology Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.
1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music With a gradual increase in speed.
accelerando
nounUS /ɑˌkʃɛl.əˈɹɑn.doʊ/ · UK /ætʃɛləˈɹændəʊ/
Etymology Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.
1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A passage having this mark.
3
Broadly Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
- The accelerando of the sciences and of technology, their mathematization have beggared both the reach and the veracity of natural language.2012, George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought, p. 195: