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  2. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Very fast Prestissimo: very prompt, very quick: Very very fast (above 200 BPM) Rallentando: slowing down: Decelerating Ritardando: retarding: Decelerating Tardo: slow, tardy: Slow tempo Tempo: time: The speed of music; e.g. 120 BPM (beats per minute) (Tempo) rubato: robbed: Free flowing and exempt from steady rhythm Tenuto: sustained: Holding ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Fast velocità Speed; con velocità: with speed velocissimo As fast as possible; usually applied to a cadenza-like passage or run via Away, out, off; as in via sordina or sordina via: 'mute off' vibrato Vibrating (i.e. a more or less rapidly repeated slight variation in the pitch of a note, used as a means of expression).

  4. Glossary of motorsport terms - Wikipedia

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    fastest lap Fastest time in which a lap was completed by a driver during a race. Sometimes rewarded with bonus championship points. field The competing cars in an event. field-filler A driver or team usually slower than the majority of the field that only participates if there are open spots. [1] See also start and park. first or worse

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  6. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...

  7. Tempo - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a song says 'medium shuffle', the drummer plays a shuffle drum pattern; if it says 'fast boogie-woogie', the piano player plays a boogie-woogie bassline. 'Show tempo', a term used since the early days of vaudeville , describes the traditionally brisk tempo (usually 160–170 bpm) of opening songs in stage revues and musicals.

  8. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    Also isometric graphics. Graphic rendering technique of three-dimensional objects set in a two-dimensional plane of movement. Often includes games where some objects are still rendered as sprites. 360 no-scope A 360 no-scope usually refers to a trick shot in a first or third-person shooter video game in which one player kills another with a sniper rifle by first spinning a full circle and then ...

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...