Usually means: Gradually increasing in speed musically.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word accelerando:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. accelerando: Merriam-Webster
  2. accelerando: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accelerando: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accelerando: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accelerando: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accelerando, accelerando: Wordnik
  7. accelerando: Wiktionary
  8. accelerando: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. accelerando: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. accelerando: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Accelerando, accelerando: Dictionary.com
  12. Accelerando (album), Accelerando (book), Accelerando: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Accelerando: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. accelerando: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. accelerando: Rhymezone
  16. Accelerando: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. accelerando: FreeDictionary.org
  18. accelerando: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. accelerando: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. accelerando: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. accelerando: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accelerando: Encyclopedia

(Note: See accelerandos as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (accelerando)

noun:  (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
noun:  (music) A passage having this mark.
noun:  (by extension) Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
adverb:  (music) With a gradual increase in speed.

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