Usually means: Gradual increase in music volume.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cresc: Merriam-Webster
  2. cresc: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cresc: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cresc: Wiktionary
  5. cresc, cresc: Dictionary.com
  6. cresc: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. cresc-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cresc-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CRESC: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cresc: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cresc)

noun:  (music) Abbreviation of crescendo. [(music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.]

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