Usually means: Repeated musical phrase or rhythm.
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  1. ostinato: Merriam-Webster
  2. ostinato: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ostinato: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ostinato: Vocabulary.com
  5. ostinato: Wordnik
  6. ostinato: Wiktionary
  7. ostinato: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ostinato: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ostinato: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ostinato: Dictionary.com
  11. Ostinato: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ostinato: Rhymezone
  13. ostinato: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. ostinato: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ostinato: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ostinato: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. ostinato: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ostinato: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostinato: The Folk File
  2. Ostinato: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ostinato)

noun:  (music) A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.

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