intonation : अर्थ और परिभाषाएं

The act of intoning or chanting.

An intoned utterance.

A manner of producing or uttering tones, especially with regard to accuracy of pitch.

Linguistics The use of changing pitch to convey syntactic information: a questioning intonation.

A use of pitch characteristic of a speaker or dialect: "He could hear authority, the old parish intonation coming back into his voice” ( Graham Greene).

Music The opening phrase of a plainsong composition sung as a solo part.