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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The sounding of the tones of a chord in rapid succession rather than simultaneously.
  2. n. A chord played or sung in this manner.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The sounding of the notes of an instrumental chord in rapid succession, either upward or (rarely) downward, as in harp-playing, instead of simultaneously.
  2. n. A chord thus sounded; a broken chord. Sometimes written harpeggio.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mus.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously

Etymologies

  1. From the Italian arpeggiare ("to play a harp"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian, from arpeggiare, to play the harp, from arpa, harp, of Germanic origin; see harp. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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