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Cadence
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- 1 A female given name from English.
- 1 The act or state of declining or sinking. countable, uncountable
"Now was the sun in western cadence low."
- 2 a recurrent rhythmical series wordnet
- 3 The measure or beat of movement. countable, uncountable
"Getting into a good jigging rhythm means making short quick jerks in a regular cadence that might average about one jerk every 1.5 to 2 seconds."
- 4 the close of a musical section wordnet
- 5 Balanced, rhythmic flow. countable, uncountable
"You find not the apostrophas, and so miss the accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret."
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- 6 (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse wordnet
- 7 The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound. countable, uncountable
"Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull / Seafaring men o'erwatched."
- 8 A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation. countable, uncountable
- 9 A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. countable, uncountable
- 10 A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence. countable, uncountable
- 11 A dance move which ends a phrase. countable, uncountable
"The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence."
- 12 The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions. countable, uncountable
- 13 The number of steps per minute. countable, uncountable
- 14 The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle. countable, uncountable
- 15 A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call. countable, uncountable
"call cadence"
- 16 Cadency. countable, uncountable
- 17 Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse. countable, uncountable
- 18 The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground countable, uncountable
- 19 The frequency of regular product releases. countable, uncountable
"In this third case, releasing more frequently, the PSI cadence becomes a planning cadence, rather than a release cadence."
- 1 To give a cadence to. transitive
"there was besides, in an already dominating and growing element, a motive that was stronger and more enduring than enthusiasm —an implacable antagonism which acted side by side with the cause of the Union as a perpetual impelling force against the social conditions of the South, controlling the counsels of the government, and cadencing the march of its armies to the chorus: John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave, But his soul is marching on!"
- 2 To give structure to. transitive
"It was the Exile, however, which cadenced the rhythm of Jewish existence"
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.
Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.
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