TONE ENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tone ending mean? 

• TONE ENDING (noun)
  The noun TONE ENDING has 1 sense:

1. (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

  Familiarity information: TONE ENDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TONE ENDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

release; tone ending

Hypernyms ("tone ending" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tone ending"):

explosion; plosion (the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant)