noun Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
noun An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
noun A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
noun Mathematical senses. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic. The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
noun A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
noun The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
noun Musical senses. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique. A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
noun A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.