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crescendos

noun

Meaning

  1. An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
  2. A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
  3. The climax of a gradual increase.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

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