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coda
1[koh-duh]
noun
Music.a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
Ballet.the concluding section of a ballet, especially the final part of a pas de deux.
a concluding section or part, especially one of a conventional form and serving as a summation of preceding themes, motifs, etc., as in a work of literature or drama.
anything that serves as a concluding part.
Phonetics.the segment of a syllable following the nucleus, as the d- sound in good.
CODA
2[koh-duh]
abbreviation
child of deaf adultadults: a hearing person with a deaf parent or parents.
coda
/ ˈəʊə /
noun
music the final, sometimes inessential, part of a musical structure
a concluding part of a literary work, esp a summary at the end of a novel of further developments in the lives of the characters
coda
An ending to a piece of music, standing outside the formal structure of the piece. Coda is the Italian word for “tail.”
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of coda2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of coda1
Example Sentences
But Hanegbi added a coda – "but the concept of 'at the moment' is valid for a limited time."
Sperm whales use a series of clicks, called codas, to communicate.
Maybe all this can be read as an ironic coda to the last 80 years of U.S. global domination, the reductio ad absurdum of American exceptionalism.
Over nine minutes and six seconds it achieves Caligulan levels of excess, full of scorching guitar solos, throat-shredding vocal runs, and even an orchestral coda.
“We felt her presence in the lack of it,” he writes of her funeral, a fitting coda to her elusiveness.
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