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accelerando (adv.)

musical instruction indicating a passage to be played with gradually increasing speed, 1842, from Italian accelerando, present participle of accelerare, from Latin accelerare "to hasten, quicken" (see accelerate).

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accelerate (v.)
Origin and meaning of accelerate

1520s, "hasten the occurrence of;" 1590s, "make quicker" (implied in accelerating), from Latin acceleratus, past participle of accelerare "to hasten, quicken" (trans.), "make haste" (intrans.), from ad "to" (see ad-) + celerare "hasten," from celer "swift," which is perhaps from PIE *keli- "speeding" (see celerity). Intransitive sense of "go faster, become faster" in English is from 1640s. Related: Accelerated; accelerative.

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Definitions of accelerando
1
accelerando (n.)
a gradually increasing tempo of music;
my ear will not accept such violent accelerandos
2
accelerando (adv.)
with increasing speed;
here you must play accelerando
3
accelerando (adj.)
(music) gradually increasing in tempo;
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