Crescendo
[krɪ'ʃendəʊ] or [krə'ʃɛndo]
Definition
(noun.) (music) a gradual increase in loudness.
(verb.) grow louder; 'The music crescendoes here'.
(adj.) gradually increasing in volume .
Typist: Marvin--From WordNet
Definition
(a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
(n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
(n.) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
Inputed by Franklin
Definition
adv. (mus.) gradually increasing in force or loudness.—n. a passage marked by this.—Often cres. cresc. or 
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Inputed by Anna
Examples
- Mrs. Trenor brought this out in a CRESCENDO of indignation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- We are too apt to consider the career of Alexander as the crown of some process that had long been afoot; as the climax of a crescendo. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And it is amidst this crescendo and diminuendo of frost and snow that we first recognize forms that are like the forms of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Mary