Abbr. on a musical score

• Increase in loudness: Mus. dir.
• Mus. passage
• Dramatic mus. marking
• Increasing in vol
• Opposite of dimin
• Gradual incr. in volume
• Opposite of dimin.
• Dimin.'s musical opposite
• Gradual increase in vol.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
abbr. (context music English) crescendo