TEMPO (tempi)

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Irregular inflected form: tempi   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tempo mean? 

• TEMPO (noun)
  The noun TEMPO has 2 senses:

1. (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played

2. the rate of some repeating event

  Familiarity information: TEMPO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) the speed at which a composition is to be played

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

pacing; tempo

Hypernyms ("tempo" is a kind of...):

musical time ((music) the beat of musical rhythm)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tempo"):

accelerando (a gradually increasing tempo of music)

allegretto (a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro)

allegro (a brisk and lively tempo)

andante (a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace))

meno mosso (played at reduced speed; less rapid)

rubato (a flexible tempo; not strictly on the beat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The rate of some repeating event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

pace; tempo

Hypernyms ("tempo" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tempo"):

beats per minute; bpm; M.M.; metronome marking (the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds)

 Context examples 

At the same time, the tempo will become faster.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

High risk features includes at least one of the following: history of accelerating tempo of ischemic symptoms in preceding 48 hours; character of pain - prolonged ongoing (greater than 20 minutes) rest pain; clincal findings - pulmonary edema, most likely due to ischemia or new or worsening mitral regurgitation murmur; or S3 or new worsening rales or Hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia or age greater than 75 years; ECG - angina at rest with transient ST-segment changes greater than 0.5 mm or bundle-branch block, new or presumed new or sustained ventricular tachycardia; cardiac markers - NSTEMI patients with elevated cardiac TnT, Tnl, or CK-MB.

(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for High Risk Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction or Unstable Angina, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)