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accelerandos

accelerandos is the plural of accelerando.

Meaning of accelerando

Noun

accelerando (plural accelerandos or accelerandoes)

  1. A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
  2. 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

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Questions about accelerandos

What is accelerandos the plural of?
Accelerandos is the plural of accelerando.

Words near accelerandos in the dictionary

  1. accel
  2. accel.
  3. accelerable
  4. accelerando
  5. accelerandoes
  6. accelerandos
  7. accelerans
  8. accelerant
  9. accelerants
  10. acceleratable
  11. accelerate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accelerandos (page history and authors); accelerando (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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