Tremolo: alternatives and connections

The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted…

appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth, he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated…

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instrumen…

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called,…

(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not appare…

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.

Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an ef…

Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an…

Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, s…

The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.

Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…

To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.

Want of effect, or of power to produce the effect; inefficacy.

Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.

The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cess…

A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…