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Accordion

//əˈkɔ(ɹ).diˌən// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
"A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked."
2
a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player wordnet
3
A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
4
Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows. attributive, figuratively
"See also: telescoping"

Verb

1
To fold up, in the manner of an accordion intransitive, transitive
"I slit the wrapping with my pocketknife and the clothesline accordioned out in stiff loops."

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested in 1831. From German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.

Etymology 2

First attested in 1831. From German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.

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