tempo
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tempo/ˈtempəʊ/
▶noun (pl. tempos or tempi /-piː/)
- 1 Music the speed at which a passage of music is played.
- 2 the pace of an activity or process.
– origin C17: from Ital., from L. tempus ‘time’.
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