Usually means: Gradual increase in music volume.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. crescendo: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. crescendo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crescendo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crescendo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crescendo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crescendo, crescendo: Wordnik
  7. crescendo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crescendo: Wiktionary
  9. crescendo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crescendo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crescendo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crescendo: Dictionary.com
  13. crescendo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Crescendo (Becca Fitzpatrick novel), Crescendo (Fitzpatrick novel), Crescendo (TV series), Crescendo (disambiguation), Crescendo (film), Crescendo (visual novel), Crescendo, The Crescendo (music venue): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Crescendo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. crescendo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. crescendo: Rhymezone
  18. Crescendo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Crescendo, crescendo: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. crescendo: Free Dictionary
  21. crescendo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. crescendo: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crescendo: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crescendo: Urban Dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
noun:  (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
noun:  (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.
verb:  To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.
adverb:  (music) Gradually increasing in force or loudness.

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