Usually means: Speeds or paces of music.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tempos: Merriam-Webster
  2. tempos, tempos: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tempos: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tempos: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tempos, tempos: Wordnik
  6. tempos: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tempos: Wiktionary
  8. tempos: Dictionary.com
  9. The Tempos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. tempos: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tempos: Legal dictionary

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  1. tempos: Encyclopedia

(Note: See tempo as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tempo)

noun:  A frequency or rate.
noun:  (chess) A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.
noun:  (bridge) The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.
noun:  The timing of a particular event – earlier or later than in an alternative situation (as in chess example)
noun:  (music) The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante)
noun:  (cycling) The steady pace set by the frontmost riders.
noun:  A small truck or cargo van with three or four wheels, commonly used for commercial transport and deliveries (particularly in Asian and African countries).
noun:  (American football) A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.
noun:  A temporary carport.
noun:  (Quebec, automotive) A type of car shelter, a temporary kit-built prefabricated steel-framed high tunnel peaked hoop house with an impermeable translucent plastic fabric cover, and flap doors.
noun:  A female given name.
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