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accordatura

[uh-kawr-duh-toor-uh; It. ahk-kawr-dah-too-rah]

ac·cor·da·tu·ra

[uh-kawr-duh-toor-uh; It. ahk-kawr-dah-too-rah]
noun, plural -tu·ras, -tu·re [It. -too-re] . Music.
the notes to which a stringed instrument is tuned.

Origin:
< Italian: literally, a tuning, equivalent to accordat(o) (past participle of accordare < Vulgar Latin *accordāre; see accord) + -ūra -ure
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Accordatura has a plethora of syllables.
So is floccinaucinihilipilification. Does it mean:
(used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
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