What is "accelerando"

increasing \increasing\ adj.

1. becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit-maximizing ; {raising ; {accretive ; {rising ] {decreasing

2. same as growing, 1. [prenominal]

   Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental.

3. (Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ]

adv. (label en music) with a gradual increase in speed n. 1 (context music English) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed. 2 (context music English) A passage having this mark.

1. adj. gradually increasing in tempo

2. n. a gradually increasing tempo of music; "my ear will not accept such violent accelerandos"

3. adv. with increasing speed; "here you must play accelerando"

Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories by British author Charles Stross. As well as normal hardback and paperback editions, it was released as a free e-book under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Accelerando won the Locus Award in 2006, and was nominated for several other awards in 2005 and 2006, including the Hugo, Campbell, Clarke, and British Science Fiction Association Awards.

Accelerando is an album by pianist Vijay Iyer recorded in 2011 and released on the ACT label in 2012.