accelerando

Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑ.ˌtʃɛl.ə.ˈɹɑn.do/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /æksɛləˈɹændəʊ/

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.

accelerando (not comparable)

1. (music) with a gradual increase in speed

accelerando

1. accelerando

accelerando

1. gerund of accelerare

accelerando

1. accelerating

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