Usually means: Silence indicated in a musical score.
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  1. tacet: Merriam-Webster
  2. tacet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tacet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tacet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tacet: Wordnik
  6. tacet: Wiktionary
  7. tacet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tacet: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tacet: Dictionary.com
  10. Tacet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Tacet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. tacet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Tacet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. tacet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. tacet: FreeDictionary.org
  16. tacet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. tacet: The Folk File
  2. Tacet: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (music) An instruction indicating silence on the part of the performers of a piece.

Similar:
tongue, hold one's piece, tune, tut-tut, articulate, button it, shush, sound off, wheesh, scat, more...

Opposite:
vocal, audible, outspoken, expressive, talkative

Types:
whole, breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, demisemiquaver, more...

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Similar:
tongue, hold one's piece, tune, tut-tut, articulate, button it, shush, sound off, wheesh, scat, more...

Opposite:
vocal, audible, outspoken, expressive, talkative

Types:
whole, breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, demisemiquaver, more...



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