Usually means: Creating spontaneously without prior preparation.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. improvisation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. improvisation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. improvisation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. improvisation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. improvisation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Improvisation, improvisation: Wordnik
  7. improvisation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. improvisation: Wiktionary
  9. improvisation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. improvisation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. improvisation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Improvisation, improvisation: Dictionary.com
  13. improvisation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Improvisation (music), Improvisation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Improvisation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. improvisation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. improvisation: Rhymezone
  18. Improvisation (f), improvisation, improvisation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. improvisation: Free Dictionary
  20. improvisation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. improvisation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. improvisation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. improvisation: Encyclopedia

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. improvisation: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See improvisational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
noun:  That which is improvised; an impromptu.
noun:  Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
noun:  The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead

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