Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Crescendo"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crescendo \Cres*cen"do\ (kr?s-s?n"d?; It. kr?-sh?n"d?), a. &
adv. [It., from crescere to increase. See {Crescent}.] (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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crescendo \Cres*cen"do\, n. (Mus.)
(a) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone
with which a passage is performed.
(b) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing
volume of tone.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
crescendo
adj : gradually increasing in volume
n : (music) a gradual increase in loudness
v : grow louder, of sound; "The music crescendoes here" [ant: {decrescendo}]
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