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accompaniment

noun
/əˈkʌm.pə.ni.mənt/

Etymology

From French accompagnement; equivalent to accompany + -ment. First attested in 1744.

  1. borrowed from accompagnement

Definitions

  1. A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in…

    A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.

    • Brooks performed a saxophone solo on stage, with Robert as accompaniment on the bass.

  2. That which accompanies

    That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.

    • A side salad is a common accompaniment to a main dish.
    • forecasting torrential rain, with an accompaniment of crashing thunder.
    • Green sauce is the perfect accompaniment to baked fish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at accompaniment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at accompaniment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at accompaniment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA