Usually means: Prolongation of syllable over notes.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word melisma:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. melisma: Merriam-Webster
  2. melisma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. melisma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. melisma: Collins English Dictionary
  5. melisma: Wordnik
  6. melisma: Wiktionary
  7. melisma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. melisma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. melisma: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Melisma, melisma: Dictionary.com
  11. Melisma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Melisma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. melisma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Melisma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. melisma: FreeDictionary.org
  16. melisma: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. melisma: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. melisma: The Folk File
  2. melisma: Urban Dictionary

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

(Note: See melismas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (melisma)

noun:  (music, countable) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text.
noun:  (music, uncountable) The use of such passages.

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