Usually means: Slide between notes in music.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. glissando: Merriam-Webster
  2. glissando: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glissando: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glissando: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glissando: Vocabulary.com
  6. glissando: Wordnik
  7. glissando: Wiktionary
  8. glissando: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. glissando: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. glissando: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Glissando, glissando: Dictionary.com
  12. Glissando: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Glissando: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. glissando: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. glissando: Rhymezone
  16. Glissando: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. glissando: FreeDictionary.org
  18. glissando: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. glissando: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glissando: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glissando: The Folk File

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See glissandi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (glissando)

noun:  (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
noun:  A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
verb:  (music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.

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