Definitions for tempi

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tempi tem·pi

Spelling: [tem-pee]

IPA: /ˈtɛm pi/

Tempi is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in tempi (eimpt).

Definitions for tempi

noun

1. a plural of tempo.
2. Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
3. characteristic rate, rhythm, or pattern of work or activity:
4. Chess. the gaining or losing of time and effectiveness relative to one's continued mobility or developing position, especially with respect to the number of moves required to gain an objective:

Origin of tempi

1680-90; Italian Latin tempus time

Examples for tempi

(p. 148) But Rgnier would not hear of it; he stuck to his original conception in four tempi.

I lived with them like a sultan, and still I delight to recall this happy time, and I say with a sigh, 'tempi passati'!

The character of these pieces is prevailingly sentimental, and the tempi were not so quick then as now.

You shall receive by the next post the tempi of the Sonata marked in accordance with Maelzel's metronome.

In three movements of which the tempi are indicated by Bach.

The tempi Madonna holds him to her heart, pressing her lips to his soft cheek.

Beethoven had complied with the publisher's desire and sent a slip of paper with the tempi marked metronomically.

Unfortunately, at the express desire of the Prince, almost all the tempi were taken too quick, and thereby much spoiled.

Up in the top story hurrying drips beat, like metronomes, all the tempi, from a ponderous adagio to a racing prestissimo.

"They will soon be tempi passati, these giorni felice," he said, sighing.