crescendo: znaczenie i definicje

Music A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage.

Music A passage played with a gradual increase in volume or intensity.

A steady increase in intensity or force: "insisted [that] all paragraphs ... should be structured as a crescendo rising to a climactic last sentence” ( Henry A. Kissinger).

Usage Problem The climactic point or moment after such a progression: "The attacks ... began in December ... and reached a crescendo during [the president's] September visit” ( Foreign Affairs).

Gradually increasing in volume, force, or intensity.

Music With a crescendo.

To build up to or reach a point of great intensity, force, or volume: "The designer-name craze crescendoed in the mid-seventies” ( Bernice Kanner).