- Music.
- a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force.
- a musical passage characterized by such an increase.
- the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- a steady increase in force or intensity: The rain fell in a crescendo on the rooftops.
- the climactic point or moment in such an increase; peak: The authorities finally took action when public outrage reached a crescendo.
- gradually increasing in force, volume, or loudness (opposed to decrescendo or diminuendo).
- to grow in force or loudness.
- music
- a gradual increase in loudness or the musical direction or symbol indicating this
- (as modifier)
- a gradual increase in loudness or intensity
- a peak of noise or intensity
- to increase in loudness or force
- with a crescendo
