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tremolant

tremolant is the alternative form of tremulant.

Meaning of tremulant

Noun

tremulant (plural tremulants)

  1. A mechanical component of a musical organ, designed to add vibration to the sounds produced by the instrument.
    • The tremulant is a small apparatus that gives to the tone of any department of an organ to which it may be applied a waving or undulating effect.1855, Edward J. Hopkins, “XVI: The Tremulant”, in The Organ: Its History and Construction, page 70

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Forms of tremolant

pluraltremolants

Questions about tremolant

What is tremolant the alternative form of?
Tremolant is the alternative form of tremulant.

Words near tremolant in the dictionary

  1. tremographs
  2. tremography
  3. tremolandi
  4. tremolando
  5. tremolandos
  6. tremolant
  7. tremolants
  8. tremolist
  9. tremolists
  10. tremolite
  11. tremolites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tremolant (page history and authors); tremulant (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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