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cadence

noun
/ˈkeɪdn̩(t)s/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“to fall, to cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

  1. derived from *ḱad-✻ — “to fall”
  2. derived from *kadō✻
  3. derived from *cadentia✻
  4. derived from cadenza — “conclusion of a phrase of music”
  5. borrowed from cadence

Definitions

  1. The act or state of declining or sinking.

    • Now was the sun in western cadence low.

  2. The measure or beat of movement.

    • Getting into a good jigging rhythm means making short quick jerks in a regular cadence that might average about one jerk every 1.5 to 2 seconds.

  3. Balanced, rhythmic flow.

    • You find not the apostrophas, and so miss the accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.
    • Night has now passed in the Saudi desert and as we hear from Nightline correspondent Forrest Sawyer, the normal cadence of life at the front is about to change.
  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.

      • Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull / Seafaring men o'erwatched.
      • The accents […] were in passion's tenderest cadence.

    2. A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical…

      A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.

    3. A cadenza, or closing embellishment

      A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.

    4. A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.

    5. A dance move which ends a phrase.

      • The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.

    6. The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.

    7. The number of steps per minute.

    8. The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.

    9. A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching

      A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.

      • call cadence

    10. Cadency.

    11. Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.

    12. The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes…

      The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground

    13. The frequency of regular product releases.

      • In this third case, releasing more frequently, the PSI cadence becomes a planning cadence, rather than a release cadence.
      • We recommend aiming for a release cadence of no more than six months, with a goal of getting it down to three months or shorter.
      • This happens when the installation cadence in production is slower than the release cadence of the development teams.

    14. To give a cadence to.

      • In this march to the City of the Dead," scores upon scores of the best musical organizations of the nation were in line, whose funeral dirges cadenced' the great wail of a bereft people.
      • Example 10a gives a melody for one endecasyllabic line of verse; there are various ways of utilizing it, including Rore's choice of cadencing the first line on the third scale degree, for a two-line segment of an ottava stanza.

    15. To give structure to.

      • It was the Exile, however, which cadenced the rhythm of Jewish existence
      • They are neither mentioned specifically in the Constitution, nor in the Federalist Papers that cadenced the nationalist debates.
      • ... an idea taken up by Percier and Fontaine, who also supplied the Corinthian order and transverse arcades cadencing the gallery's length today

    16. A female given name from English.

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Derived

cadence-lypso, cadence rampa, demicadence, intercadence

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