demicadence

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In music, a half cadence. It usually denotes the progression from tonic to dominant. See cadence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Mus.) An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun music An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the keynote.