The meaning of CRESCENDO is a gradual increase; specifically : a gradual increase in volume of a musical passage. How to use crescendo in a sentence.

CRESCENDO meaning: 1. a gradual increase in loudness, or the moment when a noise or piece of music is at its loudest…. Learn more.

A steady increase in intensity or force: "insisted [that] all paragraphs ... should be structured as a crescendo rising to a climactic last sentence" (Henry A. Kissinger).

5 days ago · crescendo (plural crescendos or crescendi or crescendoes) (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians …

People sometimes describe an increase in the intensity of something, or its most intense point, as a crescendo.

Definition of crescendo noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Crescendo definition: A gradual increase in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage.