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Tempo

[tem-poh]

noun, plural -pos, -pi

[-pee] .

Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.

characteristic rate, rhythm, or pattern of work or activity: the tempo of city life.

Chess. the gaining or losing of time and effectiveness relative to one's continued mobility or developing position, especially with respect to the number of moves required to gain an objective: Black gained a tempo.

Origin:
1680–90; < Italian < Latin tempus time

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Tempo is always a great word to know.

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chord of three tones, one consisting of a given tone with its major or minor third augmented

note having one sixteenth of the time value of a whole note

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Example Sentences

When the tempo slowed, so did their pedaling and their entire affect.

For many corporations, the work tempo of academics is zealously advocated as a model for their high-wage employees.

The government points out that it has tried less drastic ways of reducing the tempo menace.

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When the tempo slowed, so did their pedaling and their entire affect.

For many corporations, the work tempo of academics is zealously advocated as a model for their high-wage employees.

The government points out that it has tried less drastic ways of reducing the tempo menace.

Waiting for her friends after school, she would bang on her legs and stamp her feat, marking the tempo with her voice.

Trova un altro modo per sprecare soldi e tempo prima che tutti i tuoi sismologi sono muti.

If you go a few miles over the speed limit, it slows down the tempo of any track playing from your music library.

Christie taken the main tempo a notch or two slower.

Both of those really challenge me to keep my feet organized and on tempo.

If a song's tempo is changed without changing its pitch, his head-bobbing and leg-lifting change time to match.

Gli stili di ballo più popolari del paese sono la zamba, un tempo considerata la danza nazionale argentina, e la chacarera.

We decided to let the player control the tempo of the music performance by waving a baton in the marching band.

It keeps the group together and keeps folks from rushing or dragging the tempo.

She reaches the edge of the stage, and the tempo soars.

It has the ability to control pitch, tempo and gives nice visual elements to the sound as well.

But even they were quite powerless against the slow but steadily advancing tempo of the funeral march.

Once all the organs are out, the tempo picks up in the operating room.

In its stead, it results to outright condemnation and subtle cynicism in the article's verbiage, tempo and tonal setting.

The pianist gradually increases the tempo and volume and completely expends his energy.

Every keystroke builds an evolving melody as his darting cursor adds and replaces functions and tempo variables.

Lipkin has a solid technique, and over the years he has obviously given problems of tempo and phrasing a lot of thought.

Cloudy weather may also have cut the tempo of attacks on ground targets.

Also different was the tempo and overall feeling, which-although still highly syncopated-was much calmer compared to the chang.

In the wild, though, their calls may go much higher in pitch and much faster in tempo than any human tutor's voice.

Adjust the tempo of one of the songs until the two are in sync.

While iTunes can display the beats-per-minute information, it doesn't actually calculate a song's tempo itself.

What a tempo from an agency which is located in a country that has sophisticated labs and the best scientists in the world.

The tempo of military operations in the area has increased lately.

He transformed those loops with software so they'd have a uniform tempo and loaded them into a keyboard.

The picture possesses a tempo accented by an engaging ribaldry that makes it good to look at and easy to listen to.

In previous albums, divergent tracks were strung together by jarring transitions of both sound and tempo between songs.

The tempo of music helps him set the tempo of the actors and their dialogue and how they move.

The concluding toccata was thrilling, hammered out at a supercharged tempo.

His letter shows every indication of maintaining that tempo this year.

Sometimes her spacious sense of tempo worked less well.

The vignettes were expertly edited to match the mood and tempo of the saga's score.

But the tempo of this heartbeat is slower than your heartbeat, beating only about as often as you breathe.

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World English Dictionary

tempo (ˈtɛmpəʊ)

—n , pl -pos, -pi
1.	the speed at which a piece or passage of music is meant to be played, usually indicated by a musical direction (tempo marking) or metronome marking
2.	rate or pace

[C18: from Italian, from Latin tempus time]

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Word Origin & History

tempo

"relative speed of a piece of music," 1724, from It. tempo, lit. "time" (pl. tempi), from L. tempus (gen. temporis) "time." Extended to non-musical senses 1898.

American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

tempo definition

In music, the speed at which a piece is performed. It is the Italian word for “time.”

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Computing Dictionary

TEMPO definition

A programming language with simple syntax and semantics designed for teaching semantic and pragmatic aspects of programming languages.
["TEMPO: A Unified Treatment of Binding Time and Parameter Passing Concepts in Programming Languages", N.D. Jones et al, LNCS 66, Springer 1978].

Tempo definition

operating system
The original code name for Mac OS version 8.
(1997-10-15)

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