crescendo Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (music) a gradual increase in loudness
  2. verb grow louder
    • The music crescendoes here
  3. adjective satellite gradually increasing in volume

WordNet

Cres*cen"do adjective & adverb
Etymology
It., from crescere to increase. See Crescent.
Definitions
  1. (Mus.) 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.
Cres*cen"do noun
Definitions
  1. (Mus.) (a) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. (b) A pssage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.

Webster 1913