crescendo : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crescendo	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for crescendo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crescendo adj gradually increasing in volume n (music) a gradual increase in loudness v grow louder; "The music crescendoes here" [ant: decrescendo]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crescendo \Cres*cen"do\ (kr?s-s?n"d?; It. kr?-sh?n"d?), a. & adv. [It., from crescere to increase. See {Crescent}.] (Mus.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crescendo \Cres*cen"do\, n. (Mus.) (a) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. (b) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.