cadence
IPA: kˈeɪdʌns
noun
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (music) 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.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- A female given name from English.
verb
- (transitive) To give a cadence to.
- (transitive) To give structure to.
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Examples of "cadence" in Sentences
- The poetry has a pleasing cadence.
- The phrasing and the cadence are identical.
- At the reception, Stifler danced with Cadence.
- The movement ends in a peaceful, introspective cadence.
- The delegates caught the cadence and took up the chant.
- The biblical cadence of these words resonates in memory.
- The percussion use the cadence of a languorous belly dance.
- At the reception, they dance while Stifler dances with Cadence.
- The songs invariably feature a rhythm timed to the cadence of the march.
- It says in the article that a deceptive cadence is in the parallel minor.