tone ending

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsrelease

   Broadertermination

   Narrowerplosion

   music

Questions about tone ending

What does tone ending mean?

tone ending means "(music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone".

What is another word for tone ending?

Close synonyms include release. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tone ending a common word?

tone ending is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.