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Meaning of "accelerando" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACCELERANDO

Italian.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ACCELERANDO

ækˌsɛləˈrændəʊ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACCELERANDO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Accelerando can act as a noun, an adjective and an adverb.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES ACCELERANDO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Accelerando

Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories by British author Charles Stross. As well as normal hardback and paperback editions, it was released as a free e-book under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Accelerando won the Locus Award in 2006, and was nominated for several other awards in 2005 and 2006, including the Hugo, Campbell, Clarke, and British Science Fiction Association Awards.

Definition of accelerando in the English dictionary

The definition of accelerando in the dictionary is with increasing speed. Other definition of accelerando is an increase in speed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACCELERANDO

allargando · bandeau · Brando · calando · forzando · glissando · largando · lentando · mancando · mondo · Orlando · parlando · rallentando · rinforzando · ritardando · saltando · scherzando · tremolando · whiskerando · window

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACCELERANDO

accede · accedence · acceder · accel. · accelerable · accelerant · accelerate · accelerated depreciation · accelerated program · acceleratingly · acceleration · acceleration clause · acceleration due to gravity · acceleration of free fall · acceleration of gravity · accelerative · accelerator · accelerator pedal · acceleratory · accelerometer

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACCELERANDO

Belmondo · commando · crescendo · fissure of Rolando · fricando · go commando · Hondo · innuendo · kendo · kondo · martellando · Ondo · perdendo · rondo · San Fernando · secondo · sforzando · smorzando · tondo · undo

Synonyms and antonyms of accelerando in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «accelerando» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ACCELERANDO

Find out the translation of accelerando to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of accelerando from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «accelerando» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

渐快
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

accelerando
570 millions of speakers
en

English

accelerando
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

accelerando
380 millions of speakers
ar

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accelerando
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

accelerando
278 millions of speakers
pt

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accelerando
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

accelerando
260 millions of speakers
fr

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accelerando
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Accelerando
190 millions of speakers
de

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accelerando
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

アッチェレランド
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

accelerando
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Accelerando
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

accelerando
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

accelerando
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

प्रवेगक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

accelerando
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

Accelerando
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

accelerando
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

accelerando
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

accelerando
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

accelerando
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

accelerando
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Accelerando
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

accelerando
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of accelerando

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACCELERANDO»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about accelerando

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACCELERANDO»

Discover the use of accelerando in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to accelerando and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Accelerando
His most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans.
Charles Stross, 2010
2
Accelerando
A specialty of playwright Douglas Post: a philosophical mystery...working in territory that Alfred Hitchcock explored.
Lisa Loomer, 1998
3
Macrobii Ambrosii Theodosii Opera Quae Supersunt ...: ...
Lucina a parturientibus invocatur, quia proprium eius munus est distenderé rimas corporis et meatihus viam dare, quod est accelerando partu salutarc. Et hoc est quod ele- 28 ganter poeta Timotheus expressit: Edil. vicahgapdzb.] noxius).
Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, Ludwig von Jan, 1852
4
Free E-Books: Baen Books, Cory Doctorow, Accelerando, 1632, ...
This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge.
General Books LLC, LLC Books, 2010
5
Postcyberpunk Novels: Accelerando (Novel), Altered Carbon, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
6
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Accelerando (2005), a “fix-up” novel comprised of previously published stories, was short-listed for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Glasshouse (2006), a loose sequel to Accelerando, was nominated for both a Hugo Award and a Tiptree ...
Arthur B. Evans, 2010
7
Singing Schumann : An Interpretive Guide for Performers: An ...
The extensive phrase duration and the harmonic motion suggest increased forward movement; the repetition of "die schone Waldeinsamkeit" should be given increased time to compensate for the slight accelerando of the previous phrase.
Richard Miller Wheeler Professor of Performance and Director of the Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center Oberlin College, 1999
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Music: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science, ...
Now the rubato here amounts, approximately, to an accelerando in the ascending passages and a lingering at top with perhaps the slightest slowing up while coming down. In the works of Chopin I believe the rubato principle is also applied in ...
9
The grammar of conducting: a comprehensive guide to baton ...
CHAPTER. 14. Ritardando. and. Accelerando. Just as gradual changes in dynamics require well-controlled gestures, so do gradations in the speed of music. In order to obtain the desired results in speeding up and slowing down, your mind ...
Max Rudolf, Michael Stern, 1994
10
Fanny Hensel : The Other Mendelssohn: The Other Mendelssohn
In particular, in the final section, after the shift to faster rhythmic values in diminution, she writes sempre accelerando, a climactic point at which the strict contrapuntal rigor breaks down, as it does in Felix's fugue, into a sweeping series of ...
R. Larry Todd Professor of Music Duke University, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACCELERANDO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term accelerando is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jazz fest: Vijay Iyer breaks the mould — if there is one
... of the year (for his trio with Stephan Crump and Marcus Gilmore), album of the year (for Accelerando) and Rising Star Composer of the Year. «Montreal Gazette, Jun 15»
2
'True Detective' has sophomore slump
It echoes the score of “Birdman” in that the drums accelerando and ritardando based on the emotion of the scene. With all that being said, the ... «Red and Black, Jun 15»
3
Cliburn JR: Quarterfinal Round 2
He added in slight ritards at the end of phrases and blurred some up with an interpolated accelerando. This made it hard to identify with the ... «TheaterJones Performing Arts News, Jun 15»
4
Review: Paul Jacobs at Birmingham Symphony Hall
... although Jacobs' use of the swell pedal probably offended purists, as did his accelerando at the end of the A minor Fugue BWV543, which he ... «Birmingham Post, Jun 15»
5
Die Bruecke, Zarathustra accese i colori primari
... scritta per rinsaldare il gruppo, fu invece fortemente osteggiata dagli altri membri, accelerando così la definitiva rottura dei loro rapporti. «il manifesto, Jun 15»
6
Warriors vs. Cavaliers: Symphonies now trash talking
You must have been getting a hot dog during that 2nd period accelerando! @NBAFinals." The San Francisco Symphony in 2014. «San Jose Mercury News, Jun 15»
7
Road Theatre to Open 2015-16 Season with World Premiere of …
Subsequent works include Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria!; Accelerando; Looking for Angels; Cuts and Chain of Life, which have been produced at ... «Broadway World, May 15»
8
Parsifal, CBSO, Nelsons, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
... the orchestral response was remarkably prompt, and in a neat accelerando back-out of Act One's communion scene to the knights' dispersal, ... «The Arts Desk, May 15»
9
How to Destroy the Galaxy in 4 Easy Steps
Sci-fi writer Charles Stross, a the author of Accelerando, published a thought experiment about an easy way to render the entire galaxy ... «Popular Mechanics, May 15»
10
Destroy all life in the galaxy with this one weird trick
... a networked system of solar-powered computers so numerous they capture all the local star's sunlight (as seen in Stross' book Accelerando). «The Week Magazine, May 15»
REFERENCE
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