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  2. Tempo - Wikipedia

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    Larghissimo – extremely slow, slowest type of tempo (24 bpm and under) Adagissimo and Grave – very slow and solemn (24–40 bpm) Largo – slow and broad (40–66 bpm) Larghetto – rather slow and broad (44–66 bpm) Adagio – slow with great expression [12] (44–66 bpm) Adagietto – slower than andante or slightly faster than adagio ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Crushing (i.e. a very fast grace note that is "crushed" against the note that follows and takes up no value in the measure) accidental A note that is not part of the scale indicated by the key signature. accompagnato Accompanied (i.e. with the accompaniment following the soloist, who may speed up or slow down at will) accuratezza Precision ...

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

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    An extra, very fast grace note Altissimo: very high: Very high Appoggiatura: leaning, supporting: A type of ornament that creates a "yearning" effect Arco: bow: Cancels col legno and pizzicato. (In any string passage, arco is usually expected, as it is the "default" approach; it is only ever written at the end of col legno or pizzicato passages ...

  5. Fastest animals - Wikipedia

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    List of animals by speed Rank Animal Maximum speed Class Notes 1 Peregrine falcon: 389 km/h (242 mph) 108 m/s (354 ft/s) [1] [7]Flight-diving The peregrine falcon is the fastest aerial animal, fastest animal in flight, fastest bird, and the overall fastest member of the animal kingdom.

  6. Attosecond - Wikipedia

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    The attosecond is a tiny unit, but it has various potential applications: it can observe oscillating molecules, the chemical bonds formed by atoms in chemical reactions, and other extremely tiny and extremely fast things. One attosecond is equal to 1000 zeptoseconds, or 1/1000 femtosecond.

  7. List of birds by flight speed - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey than when flying horizontally.

  8. Speed metal - Wikipedia

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    Speed metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) roots. [1] It is described by AllMusic as "extremely fast, abrasive, and technically demanding" music.

  9. High-speed photography - Wikipedia

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    Muybridge's photographic sequence of a race horse galloping, first published in 1878. High-speed photography is the science of taking pictures of very fast phenomena. In 1948, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) defined high-speed photography as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 69 frames per second or greater, and of at least three consecutive ...