English-Finnish translations for crescendo

• crescendo
• huippu
  Vuoren huippu on 1 700 metriä vedenpinnan yläpuolella.
  Hän on alansa huipulla.
  Hän on alansa huippu.
• kasvu
  Metsän kasvu on suurinta nuorena.
  rikollisuuden kasvu
  Kasvu on jäänyt ennakoitua heikommaksi.

Definition of crescendo

• An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left , by musicians called a hairpin
• The climax of a gradual increase
• To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo
• Gradually increasing in force or loudness

Examples

• Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
• Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
• The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.

Related words

• crescent
• accrescent
• accrescence
• excrescence
• decrescendo
• concrescence
• decrescent
• increscent
• crescentia