dirty coal

Due to the smell it gives off when burned.

Lignite's nickname “dirty coal,” suggests its one major drawback, but its allure is clearly its cost. Lignite is cheaper than most other energy sources.

1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times:


thaat

Borrowed from Hindi or Marathi थाट (thāṭ).

Coordinate term: (in Carnatic ragas) melakarta

(India, music) One of the basic musical scales or modes used by classical Hindustani ragas, characterized by seven notes (swaras).


shotgun mic

(film, television, sound engineering) A shotgun microphone.


shotgun microphone

en-noun

shotgun microphone (plural shotgun microphones)

(film, television, sound engineering) A highly directional microphone for capturing only the sound directly in front of them, often used at a distance.


body mic

(sound engineering) A small, hands-free microphone which is worn attached to the body or clothes.


lavalier microphone

lavalier microphone (plural lavalier microphones)

(sound engineering) A small microphone worn like a lavalier (suspended from a cord worn around the neck).

(sound engineering, generally) Any small, hands-free microphone which is worn attached to the body or clothes.

sound engineering; generally; sound engineering; generally


lapel mic

(sound engineering) A small, hands-free microphone which is worn attached to the clothes.


varnam

(music) A type of composition in the Carnatic music system.


beatmatch

en-verb

beatmatch (third-person singular simple present beatmatches, present participle beatmatching, simple past and past participle beatmatched)

beatmatches (present singular third-person)
beatmatching (participle present)
beatmatched (participle past)
beatmatched (past)

(music) To synchronize the beats in two pieces of music, as performed by a disc jockey in order to mix tracks seamlessly.


J-core

(music) A style of Japanese hardcore techno music that originated in the 1990s.


flash over

flash over (third-person singular simple present flashes over, present participle flashing over, simple past and past participle flashed over)

flashes over (present singular third-person)
flashing over (participle present)
flashed over (participle past)
flashed over (past)

To undergo an unintended electric discharge or arc over or around an insulator.


ASOT

I've learned to stay away from internet forums, it's better to let others read them for me. They can translate positive and negative comments into constructive criticism like “better not play that record anymore on ASOT” or “maybe try another mix on that track”.

2009, Rock 'n' Roll High School, Reading Rocks, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93:

As ASOT is such a popular show there were many independently captured cuesheets to compare against for all of the historical shows.

2014, Tim Scarfe, W Koolen, Yuri Kalnishkan, “Segmentation of electronic dance music”, in International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications, volume 22, number 3:

Initialism of A State of Trance (“Dutch trance music radio show”).


overwinded

en-adj

overwinded (comparative more overwinded, superlative most overwinded)

more overwinded (comparative)
most overwinded (superlative)

The diapasons, very much overwinded, as I venture to think, puff and whistle to the exclusion of all other sounds.

1890, Proceedings of the Musical Association, volume 16, Great Britain: Musical Association, page 154:

[…] the pressure of wind is too much, the tone being forced or overwinded; […]

1895, The Organist and Choirmaster, volume 3, page 43:

(music) Of a musical instrument: provided with too much air or wind.


singeli

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

(music) A fast, energetic form of electronic dance music from Tanzania.


Eskibeat

Blend of Eskimo + beat, coined by the musician Wiley (Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., born 1979).

Wiley was the creator of Eskibeat riddim tracks (that were conflated with Grime) that were named after things associated with cold, such as Eskimo and Igloo.

2016, Kehinde Andrews, Lisa Amanda Palmer, Blackness in Britain, page 93:

(music) An early form of grime music based around themes of anger and isolation.


Poland Is Not Yet Lost

Mazurek Dąbrowskiego
Mazurek Dąbrowskiego

Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (the national anthem of Poland)


RVW

Ralph Vaughan Williams
w:Ralph Vaughan Williams

(UK, music) Initialism of Ralph Vaughan Williams; an English composer.


hot fusion

nuclear fusion using the conventional method of very high temperatures; in contrast to cold fusion.

A method of synthesizing superheavy elements, where the product nucleus has a relatively high excitation energy; typically this means that an actinide is being bombarded with calcium-48.


branching ratio

en-noun

branching ratio (plural branching ratios)

In radioactivity, the portion of all decays that take a given pathway. For example, californium-252 decays by alpha decay ~97% of the time, and by spontaneous fission ~3% of the time; so the branching ratio is about 0.97 in favor of alpha decay, and about 0.03 in favor spontaneous fission.


backpack rapper

backpack rapper (plural backpack rappers)

(music, slang) A performer of backpack rap music.


backpack rap

In reference to the backpacks in which records might be carried.

The sound of backpack rap dates to rap music's origins, but was popularized in the late 1980s and early 1990s by “Native Tongue” acts such as De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest.

2014, Geoff Harkness, Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class:

Backpack rap is often synonymous with underground rap, in which the focus is on lyrical craft. Backpack rappers tend to avoid topics that are common in mainstream commercial rap, such as money and expensive cars; […]

2018, Michael Berry, Listening to Rap: An Introduction:

(music, slang) Underground or alternative rap music.


counterfugue

(music) A fugue in which the answer or imitation to the melody is played in an inverse manner.


lunar hay fever

From lunar + hay fever. From having symptoms like hay fever, but occurring due to encounters with lunar contaminants. Coined by Harrison Schmitt in 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist, to describe the condition already previously encountered by earlier crews, and by his crew.

(pathology, astronautics, Apollo Program, informal) A condition caused by irritation to the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs, from exposure to highly abrasive lunar dust.


rebel yell

rebel yell (countable and uncountable, plural rebel yells)

A cry used by Confederate troops in the American Civil War, to intimidate Union troops.


counterermine

(heraldry) Alternative form of counter-ermine


knee stop

(music) A lever worked by the performer's knee, for regulating the air supply of a reed organ, etc.


thavil

a barrel drum instrument used in the traditional South Indian music


outsider music

(music) Music created by self-taught or naive musicians.


outsider musician

outsider musician (plural outsider musicians)

(music) An untrained musician who works outside of the mainstream.


bunker barge

Originally in reference to coal bunkers.

(nautical) A vessel used to refuel ships with coal or bunker fuel.


future house

A subgenre of house music which fuses deep house and UK garage along with other electronic dance music genres.


future bass

A genre of electronic dance music which mixes elements of dubstep and trap with less abrasive rhythms.


Trumpwave

In title, Trumpwave may once have evoked a certain ironic response, to be interpreted as derisive or polysomic. However, in current political times this genre risks becoming newly sincere.

2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine the Future?:

A subgenre of fashwave music focusing on American politician Donald Trump.


ambient music

(music) A genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.


arghul

A musical instrument in the reed family, used since ancient Egyptian times and still a traditional instrument in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine.


hyperbolaeon

Trite, the third; as, Trite Hyperbolaeon, the third string, reckoning from the top of the hyperbolaeon or highest tetrachord; […]

1835, W. Wilson, A new Dictionary of Music, page 278:

1914, Vitruvius (translated by Morris Hicky Morgan), Ten Books on Architecture
In the middle range, place first at the extreme ends the vessels which give the note of the chromatic hyperbolaeon; next to them, those which give the chromatic diezeugmenon, a fourth below; third, the chromatic synhemmenon; fourth, the chromatic meson, a fourth below; fifth, the chromatic hypaton, a fourth below; sixth, the paramese, for this is both the concord of the fifth to the chromatic hyperbolaeon, and the concord of the chromatic synhemmenon.


quartole

A very able pianist might shift the phase of the trioles in such a way that their first stroke falls between two 3x8 = 4x6 strokes of a quartole.


heliosynchronous orbit

heliosynchronous orbit (plural heliosynchronous orbits)

sun-synchronous orbit
sun-synchronous orbit

(astrodynamics) A sun-synchronous orbit.


sun-synchronous orbit

sun-synchronous orbit (plural sun-synchronous orbits)

(astrodynamics) A nearly polar orbit in which a satellite passes over the surface of a planet maintaining the same local mean solar time.


moombahcore

(music) A subgenre of moombahton with dubstep influences.


nuclear pile

nuclear stockpile

semantically quite different from a nuclear pile


blurple

blurple (countable and uncountable, plural blurples)

blurple:

(informal) A bluish-purple colour that is more blue than violet.


slow jam

(music) A slow, romantic song, found mainly in R & B or soul ballads.


Santa Fe pink

From the resemblance of the color to the stucco adobes of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and more generally from its prominence in the design of the American Southwest.

Here I was in a Santa Fe pink and green office, complete with a playpen so that Parsley, aged 4, and Love, aged 10, could be wheeled in for ‘bonding sessions’ with their producer father once a week.

1993, Wensley Clarkson, A Year in La La Land: Adventures of an Englishman in Los Angeles, page 124:

His office neatly mirrors his personality. All Santa Fe pink and coral green, it’s a painted-desert playpen, adorned with ceramic cacti, a hat rack with horns, and pencils shaped like twigs.

1993 March, Patrick Goldstein, “Catch a Wave & You're Sittin' on Top of the World”, in Premiere, page 74:

Though the Santa Fe pink-and-green interior and faux adobe may cause you to shake your head, the food gets a nod.

1995, Stuart Warren, Oregon Handbook, page 385:

Santa Fe pink:

Santa Fe, New Mexico
Southwestern United States


Mamie pink

Named for Mamie Eisenhower, who famously loved the shade and redecorated the White House in it, setting off a design trend in the 1950s.

Jackie was still suffering from a postpartum depression that left her drained of energy, but she and Sister worked nonstop through the morning, laying plans to obliterate all the “Mamie pink” and Grand Rapids furniture that dominated the upstairs Family Quarters.

1997, Edward Klein, All Too Human: The Love story of Jack and Jackie, page 461:

The shutters that swing from the windows are painted mottled shades of cream and Mamie pink, a powdery peach tone not seen since the Eisenhower administration (it appears the shutters have not been painted since then either).

2003, Adriana Trigiani, Lucia, Lucia, page 1:

First door, water closet. Added or renovated sometime in the late fifties, if she judged the Mamie pink and the fixtures correctly. Ugly as hell, but some people really liked that stuff.

2016, Cherie Priest, The Family Priest, page 49:

Mamie pink:

A light rosy pink colour with a slight orangish tinge.


Southwestern pink

He caught up with Melody at the foot of the circular driveway, adjacent to the front of the Southwestern pink house.

2003, Lori Wolf, Parrot on a Limb, page 115:

Lost in a strip mall, Richard's surprises you with a bright atmosphere displaying traditional Southwestern pink and turquoise colors.

2011, James Bernard Frost, America's Southwest: The Best Organic Food Stores, Farmers' Markets & Vegetarian Restaurants, unnumbered page:

Southwestern-pink rocks and desert shrubs littered its courtyard.

2020, Rebecca Bender, In Pursuit of Love: One Woman’s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant, page 124:


diezeugmenon

From Ancient Greek διεζευγμένων (diezeugménōn, “of the transposed (notes)”), aorist passive participle of διαζεύγνυμι (diazeúgnumi), from ζεύγνυμι (zeúgnumi).

bor

διεζευγμένων

(music) The last tetrachord, in the case where two tetrachords were placed separately from each other, but with only the interval of a tone between them.


soundscapist

There’s a new Brian Eno album on the way, but which Eno will show up? The master soundscapist who arguably invented ambient music, or the skewed pop auteur the world met on ’70s cult classics like “Here Come the Warm Jets”?

2022 September 8, Hank Shteamer et al., “75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall”, in The New York Times:

(music) A person who creates soundscapes.


alternative pop

(music) A genre of pop music, usually produced by underground performers, characterized by an eclectic range of influences and musically challenging arrangements.


viola bastarda

From Italian viola bastarda (literally “bastard viol”).

Two more Viola Bastardas from the same collection are by “Batista fiel (son) d’Anto. Cicilian in Venetia.”

In 1672 he visited Salzburg to make delivery to the court of a viola da gamba and two viola bastardas;[…]

1943, Violins and Violinists Magazine, page 368:

Another reference to Claudio Monteverdi’s court duties as a viola bastarda player is found at the end of his Scherzi Musicali, published in 1607.

2002, James Bates, “Monteverdi, the Viola Bastarda Player”, in Susan Orlando, editor, The Italian Viola da Gamba: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Italian Viola da Gamba, Edition Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, →ISBN, page 54:

(music) An altered viol maximizing players’ ability to play in a highly virtuosic style of composition or extemporaneous performance.


alt-pop

“Snail” is a quirky alt-pop number that observes the world from the perspective of a gastropod, while “Winter” is a sweetly sung exercise in introspection.

2020 November 13, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Benee’s ‘Hey u x’ illustrates the upside of TikTok-dominated pop”, in Financial Times:


2-step garage

(music) A subgenre of UK garage characterized by its lack of the typical kick drum beat pattern.


quinquegrade

One has only to play or sing this quinquegrade scale to be reminded forcibly, though vaguely, of Irish and Scotch music.

1889, Sophie Willock Bryant, Celtic Ireland, page 205:

(music) Of or relating to a kind of musical scale based on fifths.


sodina

A type of woodwind instrument from Madagascar played in Malagasy music.


Britfolk

From Brit- + folk. Compare Britpop, Britrock.

The 1970s also loom large over ‘Historian’, with the unlikely influence of Pink Floyd coming to the fore in the alt-rocking psychedelics of ‘The Shell’, the crunchy yet smooth ‘Timefighter’ featuring some moody guitar soloing and a prog-rock breakdown and ‘Pillar of Truth’ the haunting Britfolk of Sandy Denny.

2018 March 2, Leonie Cooper, “Lucy Dacus – ‘Historian’ Review”, in NME:

(music) British contemporary folk music.


lyrichord

(music, historical) A kind of vertical harpsichord.


iron buff

A yellow ancient artificial iron oxide made by oxidating iron in vinegar, one of the oldest man-made pigments, often used in staining textiles.


daegeum

Interspersed with musical numbers, including a serene solo by Chung-Eun Han for the daegeum, or bamboo flute, the program also showcased “Buchaechum,” a fan dance.

2013 August 6, Gia Kourlas, “In Drums and Fans, the Spirit of Korea”, in The New York Times:

(music) A large bamboo flute with a buzzing membrane that gives it a special timbre, used in traditional Korean music.


machine head

(music) A geared apparatus for tuning stringed instruments by adjusting the tension of the strings.


'50s progression

en-noun

'50s progression (plural '50s progressions)

'50s progression in the key of C (C-Am-F-G):
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:'50s progression.

(music) A chord progression, l–vi–IV–V, used in Western popular music, particularly common in the 1950s and early 1960s.


horsepower-hour

(electricity) A unit of energy equal to the amount of work a horse is capable of delivering during an hour.


madrigalesque

en-adj

madrigalesque (comparative more madrigalesque, superlative most madrigalesque)

more madrigalesque (comparative)
most madrigalesque (superlative)


firefall

From fire + fall, modelled on waterfall.

(historical) A summertime event held in Yosemite National Park from 1872 to 1968, in which burning hot embers were spilled from the top of Glacier Point to the valley below, giving the appearance of a glowing waterfall.


Tristanesque

Tristanesque (comparative more Tristanesque, superlative most Tristanesque)

more Tristanesque (comparative)
most Tristanesque (superlative)

(music) Resembling Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.


WTTBP

A collective gasp goes around the room. When we look, they turn away. Some little fricker started playing WTTBP and everyone cried, not even paying attention to us. Fitz bought me a Beatles, Nirvana, 5 Seconds of Summer, 115.

(Can we date this quote?), Charlie Smith, My Paperback Book, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 115:

Welcome to the Black Parade
w:Welcome to the Black Parade

(music) Initialism of "Welcome to the Black Parade".


asphaltane

(petrochemistry) polyaromatic compounds left from distillation of crude oil that are insoluble in pentane.


bisexual lighting

en-noun

bisexual lighting (countable and uncountable, plural bisexual lightings)

/baɪˌsɛkʃʊəl ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

From bisexual (adjective) + lighting (noun), referring to the pink, purple, and blue colours of the bisexual flag (also known as the bisexual pride flag).

(LGBT, often art, film, television) The simultaneous use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, often to indicate bisexuality.


direct orange

direct orange (countable and uncountable, plural direct oranges)


ligable

(music) Able to be joined with a ligature.


garklein recorder

garklein recorder (plural garklein recorders)

From German garklein (“very small”), from (archaic) gar (“very”) + klein (“small”).

(music) A recorder whose lowest note is C₆ (or otherwise in the range of B♭₆ to D₆).


top the charts

en-verb

top the charts (third-person singular simple present tops the charts, present participle topping the charts, simple past and past participle topped the charts)

tops the charts (present singular third-person)
topping the charts (participle present)
topped the charts (participle past)
topped the charts (past)

At the last count in late July, the accumulated mileage of the Pendolino had notched a mind-boggling 287,859,672 (unit 390132 City of Birmingham topping the charts with 5,482,316 miles having passed under its wheels).

2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 38:

(music, also idiomatic) To be the most popular recording at a particular time.


tropical month

The average time for the Moon to pass twice through the same equinox point of the sky (27.32158 days).


pop metal

(music) A variation of heavy metal which features prominent pop music elements such as catchy hooks and anthemic choruses.


BMTH

Like most great BMTH songs from the last decade, it's both extremely catchy and also super energetic.

2022 July 6, Eli Enis, “See Bring Me the Horizon's Horrifying, NSFW Video for New Song "sTraNgeRs"”, in Revolver:

Bring Me the Horizon
w:Bring Me the Horizon

(music) Initialism of Bring Me the Horizon: a British rock band formed in Sheffield in 2004.


epic doom

Dread Sovereign draw deep from the well of epic doom bands like Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus, though Nemtheanga’s voice is distinctive enough to draw in some of the Primordial appeal as well. […] This is epic doom for the ages, reinvented and born anew.

2017 March 31, Ian Chainey, Aaron Lariviere, “The Black Market: The Month In Metal – March 2017”, in Stereogum, 15. Dread Sovereign – “Twelve Bells Toll In Salem”:

(music) A subgenre of doom metal having a heavy classical influence.


ABBA

As an initialism of Agnetha, Björn, Benny, and Anni-Frid.

A popular Swedish music group from the 1970s, one of the best-selling music artists in history.


double fugue

(music) A fugue with two melodic subjects which are developed simultaneously.


mute cornett

(music, historical) A variant of the treble cornett, made from a single piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe, bored out and given finger holes.


lead white

Synonym of white lead, particularly as used in paints and the hue of such paints.


subpunctis

(music) A compound neume consisting of one or more notes appended after a neume.


panduri

Borrowing of Georgian ფანდური (panduri).


sign of the horns

en-noun

sign of the horns (plural signs of the horns)

A hand gesture in which the index and little finger are extended while the middle and ring fingers are held down with the thumb, having various meanings across cultures, and sometimes signifying cuckoldry or associated with heavy metal music.


praepunctis

(music) A compound neume consisting of one or more notes appended before a neume.


naqareh

A Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a head made of hide, usually played in pairs.


Nanna-Suen

(Mesopotamian mythology) Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)


RMHD

(astrophysics) Abbreviation of radiative magnetohydrodynamic.

(physics) Abbreviation of resistive magnetohydrodynamic.

(physics) Abbreviation of reduced magnetohydrodynamic.

(physics, engineering) Abbreviation of radioisotopic magnetohydrodynamic.

(physics, engineering) Abbreviation of rotary magnetohydrodynamic.


thoruranium

modelled on actino-uranium (the uranium parent of actinium), as it was the hypothetical uranium parent of thorium


Beatles-like

en-adj

Beatles-like (comparative more Beatles-like, superlative most Beatles-like)

more Beatles-like (comparative)
most Beatles-like (superlative)

I always find it annoying when writers compare groups to The Beatles, because the comparison is really never thought out, and it is probably impossible for any group to come close to truly being Beatleslike. Those 4 became what they did by each being exceptional and by coming along at the perfect time in history.

2021 November 15, dscotts, “Fellow Beatles Fans, what are your opinions of the band Radiohead?”, in Reddit, beatles, archived from the original on 2022-11-02:

Resembling or characteristic of the Beatles.


arwhoolie

(music) A slow, introspective African-American song type that has its origin in solo work songs, featuring a meandering melody, irregular rhythms, and various forms of wordless vocalization.


field holler

They made up field hollers with long, sad, wailing blue notes in their voices that said how tired a man can be.

1954, Langston Hughes, The First Book of Jazz, New York: Franklin Watts, published 1955, page 9:

The emergence of classic blues indicated that many changes had taken place in the Negro. His sense of place, or status, within the superstructure of American society had changed radically since the days of the field holler.

1963, Amiri Baraka, chapter 7, in Blues People: Negro Music in White America, New York: Morrow, page 87:

I was terrified that once loose, once I lifted or lost my control, I would rise from my seat and dance like a puppet, up and down the aisles. I would open my mouth, and screams, shouts and field hollers would tear out my tongue in their rush to be free.

1976, Maya Angelou, chapter 3, in Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry like Christmas, New York: Bantam, published 1977, page 28:

[…] she moans the remaining lines unhurriedly and with staggering self-possession, stretching out the vowels as if intoning a field holler.

2005, Bill Friskics-Warren, “Transcendental Blues: Bettye LaVette has found her joy—and maybe, at last, an audience the size of her voice”, in Mary Gaitskill, Daphne Carr, editors, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006, Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, page 169:


ambiophonic

ambiophonic system

Thus the reverberation time created by an ambiophonic system can be controlled either by altering the levels of amplification in the reproducing head circuits, or by altering the amplitude of the feedback by means of amplifier 7.

1971, Viktor Stepanovich Manʹkovskiĭ, Acoustics of Studios and Auditoria:

(sound engineering) Relating to ambiophonics.


death disc

A macabre sub-genre of rock'n'roll singles, the songs on ‘death discs’ were usually about car or motorcycle fatalities, though occasionally referred to real-life deceased stars, and always seemed to involve teenagers!

2005, Mike Evans, Rock & Roll Facts, Figures & Fun, AAPPL, →ISBN, page 32:

In Britain, these ‘death discs’ were often banned by the BBC due to their morbid subject matter—which, of course, only made them sell all the better.

2015, S. D. Tucker, Great British Eccentrics, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

(music, informal, historical) A phonograph record about teenage tragedy.


country punk

Cash's oldest child, the country-punk singer Rosanne Cash, says of her father, “The road is as natural to him as breathing. He wouldn't know how to do without it. […]”

2011, Nicholas Dawidoff, In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Vintage, →ISBN, page 194:


The telephone number for firefighting and emergency ambulance service in Singapore.


plasma globe

A particularly cool example of a plasma is one of those “Eye of the Storm” plasma globes.

2020, Don Lincoln, The Large Hadron Collider, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 198:

boule à plasma

spherical plasma lamp — see also plasma lamp


world song

Later, during an evening concert, Lomax was discussing a group of former convicts who were chopping wood and hoeing in time to world songs.

1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 11:

However, more recent publications include world songs as a matter of course along with folk songs […]

2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally, →ISBN, page 214:

(music) A song from the genre of world music.


English cadence

en-noun

English cadence (plural English cadences)

From English + cadence. Coined in the 20th century due to its popularity with composers of the English Renaissance of the late 15th to the early 17th centuries.

(music) A perfect cadence characteristic of English Renaissance music, involving a flattened seventh note played against the dominant chord (containing a regular raised seventh); conventionally, the flattened seventh is played as part of a suspension on the penultimate beat, before resolving downwards to the sixth and then fifth of the final chord, while the raised seventh is held before resolving upward to the first; however, more complex variations are also possible.


boy group

Coordinate term: girl group

Well, 2017 must have been a very happy year for k-pop fans because so many rookie boy groups debuted in the year.

2018, UK Jung, BTS: The K-pop Pioneer, →ISBN:


perfect cadence

perfect cadence (plural perfect cadences)

(music, chiefly UK) A cadence involving the resolution of the dominant chord (V) to the root chord (I).


dancepop

Too many factors to mention contributed to the 1980s’ glory days of dancepop, but one double-edged sword was radio’s fear of hip-hop, […]

2012 March 2, Nick Minichino, “A Quick Primer On Freestyle: 1980s Dancepop's Most Underheralded Genre”, in The Village Voice:

In addition, he was one of the key players who helped develop the hit sound of the international dancepop icon Sandra.

2017, James Arena, Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop, McFarland, →ISBN, page 90:

(music) A popular music subgenre that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s, intended for nightclubs and contemporary hit radio.


Latin hip-hop

That new sound is often called Latin hip-hop. It combines the hard beats of rap music, or “traditional” hip-hop, with the synthesizers and Latin percussion of seventies disco.

1988 January 11, John Leland, “Latin hip-hop: The Beat Goes On”, in New York Magazine, page 18:

Whereas certain audience segments and critics celebrated the dawn of Latin hip-hop, there was a strong feeling of suspicion and betrayal among those who felt themselves part of an urban Afro-diasporic, Black-matrixed hip-hop culture.

2001, Agustín Laó-Montes, Arlene M. Dávila, editors, Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 246:


criticality accident

criticality accident (plural criticality accidents)

(nuclear physics) An accidental uncontrolled self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction.


guitar pick

(music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.


gray hydrogen

hydrogen generated from hydrocarbon sources without attempting to capture and eliminate the waste carbon pollution


Axis progression

From the name of a musical comedy group, The Axis of Awesome, whose 2009 song Four Chords comments on the ubiquity of this progression.

The Axis progression in the key of C:
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2017, Mark Richards, “Tonal Ambiguity in Popular Music's Axis Progressions”, in Music Theory Online:

A chord progression, I–V–vi–IV, used in Western popular music, common since the 1970s.


From 200 + -step (“denoting a genre of electronic dance music, especially one influenced by drum and bass”). Coined by Japanese music producer Camellia (Masaya Oya) in 2017.

coinage

Ophanim's song will be 200step.

How do yall listen to music in bracket with a bpm under 150 idon get it
 I need my speedcore/bms/200step

A 200step song, a tribute to my most favorite producer, Camellia.

2022 September 16, @trung_nova, Twitter:

(music) A genre of electronic music that combines dubstep wubs and rapid beat drops with a fast tempo of 200 beats per minute.


Original Pilipino Music

(Philippines, music) any musical composition created by a Filipino, whether the lyrics be in Filipino, English, or in any other language or dialect of the Philippines

Music of the Philippines#Original Pilipino Music (OPM)


starfall

en-noun

starfall (countable and uncountable, plural starfalls)

And how shall Philomel, by song oppressed, At starfall seek to lure me from my rest, When haply, lost in slumber, I may hear Young Cupid harping in that clovered breast?

1912, Norman Gale, Song in September, page 99:

It is quiet and fire of dreams, and at the last/The gathering from wild rushes at starfall/Their bed and weary sleep.

1921, Austin Clarke, The Sword of the West, Maunsel & Roberts, page 26:

While the Bedouin Carries the same tent Over deserts unlocalized, At starfall pitches in whatever Plot, home's continuance.

1964, Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America, page 53:

Had I but told them my heart, told how it was Taunted at noon and pacified at dusk, at starfall midnight Strong in hope once more, ever in eagerness Jumping like joy, would they have heard?

1979, Delmore Schwartz, Robert S. Phillips, Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz, page 65:

(uncountable) Dark night; the time when stars become visible.


gongche

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin of Mandarin 工尺 (gōngchě), from 工 (gōng, “mi”) + 尺 (chě, “re”); two note names used in gongche notation. Compare English sol-fa.

(music) A system of musical notation using Chinese characters, used in traditional Chinese music.


streichmelodion

A type of bowed zither, similar in shape to a viola.


engine house

(firefighting) A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.


bebization

(historical, music) A 17th-century system of singing.


sralai

A Cambodian wind instrument that uses a quadruple reed to produce sound.


livenka

A specific variety of accordion used in Russian folk music.


imbal

From Javanese [Term?] (literally “repeat”).

(music) The gamelan technique of rapid alternation of a melodic line between instruments.


chopsy

en-adj

chopsy (comparative more chopsy, superlative most chopsy)

more chopsy (comparative)
most chopsy (superlative)

From chops (“one's skill at musical interpretation and delivery (originally of jazz)”) + -y.

suffix

This Canadian prog-rock band has been gunning along for nearly 40 years, and fan response to its chopsy, mathematical riffs, elaborate synthesizer lines and high, otherworldly shrieking (courtesy of the famed vocalist Geddy Lee) has been consistently fervent.

2010 September 2, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-06-17:

(of music) Characterized or demonstrating chops; very skillful.


katchoo

SIR GORGEOUS [Sneezes and looks about him] Katchoo! Kazz-ee! Oh, D. this cough!

1951, Huge McCrae, The Ship of Heaven, volume I, page 19:

Synonym of achoo, characteristic sound of a person sneezing.


Madonnamania

Now Madonnamania has swept countries all over the world.

Three years later, Madonnamania was in full blossom, and so was her romance with actor Sean (The Falcon and the Snowman) Penn.

1986, Christopher P. Andersen, The New Book of People: Photographs, Capsule Biographies, and Vital Statistics of Over 500 Celebrities, Perigee Books, →ISBN, page 285:

Chapman was making music that did not rely on a danceable sound, a slick image, or an artsy video to get her message across—and this was at the height of Madonnamania.

Released within weeks of each other towards the end of that year, the ‘Like a Virgin’ single and album both rushed to #1 around the globe and Madonnamania, via hordes of Madonna ‘wannabes’, was fully unleashed.

2022, Marc Andrews, Madonna Song by Song, Fonthill Media, →ISBN:

Intense fanatical enthusiasm for American singer-songwriter and actress Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone; born 1958).


Jacksonmania

Retailers were reporting that summer that Jacksonmania was the biggest thing to hit the rock spinoff trade since the Beatles.

1986, Charles Jordan, What to Save from the ’80s, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine, →ISBN, page 63:

Jacksonmania had hit London and everyone was growing their hair in huge Afros and using an Afro fork to keep it in shape.

2006, Constance Briscoe, Ugly, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

Gordy signed The Jackson 5 in 1969, leading to the “Jacksonmania” of the early 1970s, but by mid-decade the top sellers were the high-society soul of Diana Ross and the ballads of the Commodores – Gordy focused more on producing movies such as The Wiz (1978).

2017, The Great Lakes, Rough Guides, →ISBN:

Intense fanatical enthusiasm for the American pop band The Jackson 5.


-step

Derived from hardstep (“a subgenre of drum and bass music characterised by a gritty production style and urban feel”), which emerged around 1994.

dub + -step → dubstep

drum + -step → drumstep

jazz + -step → jazzstep

electronic dance music
electronic dance music#English

(music) Denoting a genre of electronic dance music, especially one influenced by drum and bass.


jazzstep

From jazz + -step (“denoting a genre of electronic dance music, especially one influenced by drum and bass”).

Tracks such as "Stoned Love" and Die's "Reincarnations" effect a nearly perfect synthesis of Alex Reece/Wax Doctor-esque jazzstep and the rumbling hardstep styles exemplified by outfits like DJ Recordings and Renegade Hardware.

1997 August, Tim Haslett, “Bristolian Renaissance”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, volume 48, page 50:

Despite having played a big role in the gentrification process with his crusade for 'jazzstep', Fabio railed against the reduction of drum and bass to mere 'wallpaper fodder' by its use in TV links and commercials.

2013, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

I was around 19 when I heard about more VST instruments like Massive and FM8, and the first track I actually made after the punk rock phase was this jazzstep jungle song - a liquid funk piece that was so badly done; the drums were just a loop I found online and so on.

2015 May 12, Xilent [Eryk Jerzy Kowalczyk], quotee, “Xilent on crossing genre boundaries and working with some of the biggest names in pop”, in MusicRadar, archived from the original on 2021-06-15:

In wistful instrumental stretches the song slides into an extended keyboard solo of unexpected (even for Womack & Womack) minimalism and economy, a slow jazzstep in zero gravity.

2015 August 24, “The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s”, in Pitchfork, archived from the original on 2022-12-15:

Jazzstep plays in the background, a five-year-old classic, 'Gyrating to the Rhythm' by Two Evil Uncles.

2018, Bill Kandiliotis, The Blood Ring, →ISBN:

(music) A genre of electronic dance music which combines elements of drum and bass and jazz.


superheavy element

en-noun

superheavy element (plural superheavy elements)

A chemical element with an extremely high atomic number; typically taken to mean beyond lawrencium (element 103, the last actinide)


grand opera

Clearly, Hitler saw his historical function as a Wagnerian grand opera. Vast cosmic changes required an accompaniment of slaughter on a colossal scale.

1949 September 4, H. R. Trevor-Roper, “Hitler Reappraised, Ten Years After”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A genre of 19th-century opera characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras, and lavish and spectacular design and stage effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events.


cross-rhythm

From cross- + rhythm, introduced in 1934 by the musicologist Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980).


cross-beat

(music) The use of the rhythmic conflict found in polyrhythms as the basis of an entire musical work.


qairaq

A pair of flat oval stones used as clappers or castanets used in Tajik and Uzbek music.


Madonna blue

No doubt it had a beauty all its own, but beneath its fantastic, isolated blooms and leaves of Madonna blue, the gnarled roots sheltered a hundred varieties of poisonous reptiles and insects.

1917 August, Cynthia Stockley, “Blue Aloes: The Strange Story of a Karoo Farm”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXIII, number 3, page 30, column 1:

A little Dutch bonnet for the tiny girl is made of Madonna blue broadcloth.

1922, The Illustrated Milliner, page 57:

She was wearing a gown of Madonna blue and looked very fragile and ethereal.

1932, Agatha Christie, Peril at End House, page 85:

But now, in a few months’ time, the lease would be terminated, the owners were unwilling to renew it, and nowhere upon the Island could Reverend Mother find another vacant house large enough to house twenty female orphans; devout, happy little orphans who went to Mass on Sundays walking two by two, clothed in dresses of Madonna blue with white tuckers at the necks, blue cloaks, and black bonnets tied beneath their orphaned chins with neat blue bows.

1944, Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc., page 280:

Tanks would be filled and the sprayers would move through the frilly groves of vine, covering each leaf, wrapping each bunch of green grapes in a delicate web of Madonna blue.

1969, Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, London: Collins, page 236:

Twilight had fallen, of a pure Madonna blue.

1971, Nicolas Freeling, The Lovely Ladies, Harper & Row, page 87:

She was painted on the plaster, her halo and the cross in her hand picked out in gold leaf, her mermaid’s tail a grand sweep of Madonna blue, lilac, and deep sea-green.

2014, Shelley Adina, A Lady of Spirit (Magnificent Devices; book six), Moonshell Books, →ISBN:


Hawaiian guitar

Hawaiian guitar (plural Hawaiian guitars)


frozen star

frozen+star
* (stellar black hole, black hole alternative): From relativity predicting the passage of time slowing to a stop as the star collapses through its event horizon, "freezing" time and the star.
* (Population 0 star): From the existence of frozen volatiles, such as water ice, existing in the atmosphere and on the surface of such a star

sense

(astronomy) A proposed theoretical type of Population 0 star, which could exist in the far future, with a very high metallicity allowing for stars with very low mass, resulting in a nuclear fusion cored star with a surface temperature close to the triple-point of water.


trailerize

en-verb

trailerize (third-person singular simple present trailerizes, present participle trailerizing, simple past and past participle trailerized)

trailerizes (present singular third-person)
trailerizing (participle present)
trailerized (participle past)
trailerized (past)

A creepy lullaby rendition of Disney’s classic “Once Upon a Dream,” a grungy version of Ben E. King’s feel-good “Stand by Me,” and a brooding interpretation of Robert Palmer’s bouncy ’80s anthem “Addicted to Love” all exemplify a growing trend: songs creatively covered and “trailer-ized” to market movies.

2014 May 28, Tim Greiving, “Re-imagined Covers of Familiar Tunes Breathe New Life Into Trailers”, in Variety:

The first preview clip for The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, was set to a trailerized version of Nirvana’s “Something In The Way.” Turns out there’s more to that Batman-Nirvana connection.

2021 December 20, Chris DeVille, “Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne Is Inspired By Kurt Cobain Says The Batman Director”, in Stereogum:

(transitive, music) To adapt (a piece of music) for use in the trailer of a film or television show.


trailercore

The “slowed-down cover” is a contagion that has spread through music to the point where it is acknowledged as its own self-contained genre: “trailercore”. / The first confirmed example of trailercore was in 2001, when Gary Jules’s tilt at Tears For Fears’s Mad World soundtracked an ad for the video game Gears of War.

2021 November 5, Ed Power, “Trailercore: how anodyne, slowed-down covers ruined pop music”, in The Telegraph:

(music) A trend and genre in popular music, emerged in the 2010s, characterized by trailers of films, television shows, or video games being accompanied by cover versions of well-known songs performed in a somber and slowed-down style.


trailerization

en-noun

trailerization (countable and uncountable, plural trailerizations)

Composers are increasingly in demand for trailerization — reworking existing tracks by artists including Kate Bush, Nirvana and Kendrick Lamar to maximize their impact in film and TV previews. […] Many high profile trailerizations are applied to songs that are decades old: Remixes and overlays allow the trailers to tap into the nostalgia evoked by the original.

2023 January 6, Eric Ducker, “Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working.”, in The New York Times:

(music)The act of trailerizing (adapting a piece of music for use in the trailer of a film or television show).


downslurred

en-adj

downslurred (comparative more downslurred, superlative most downslurred)

more downslurred (comparative)
most downslurred (superlative)


bardcore

From bard + -core (“denoting a genre of music”).

suffix

There's a Bardcore cover for every occasion: The Weekend's "Blinding Lights" for the after-banquet, Sia's "Chandelier" for when thine eyes doth begin to weep, Linkin Park's "Numb" for when the mood continues to spiral, and a cover of "I'm Blue (da ba dee)" by Eiffel 65 for those yearning for a simpler time.

2020 June 23, Elmira Tanatarova, “Exploring Bardcore: YouTube's obsession with medieval covers of Lady Gaga”, in i-D, archived from the original on 2022-11-06:

Sure, bardcore's usage of modern melodies may not align with what scholars know about medieval melodies (written in an entirely different mode) and the insertion of faux-medieval phrases like taking out all the "you"s and using "thou" alongside contemporary lyrics may not be entirely accurate. But bardcore's reinvention of medieval music isn't all that different from what's framed as historically accurate medieval music today.

2020 August 5, Hazel Cills, “How Historically Accurate Is Bardcore Anyway?”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2022-12-25:

The instruments he uses for the bardcore covers are downloaded from virtual sound libraries - a variety of lutes and harps, as well as the crumhorn, a curved wind instrument, and the psaltery, a kind of plucked zither.

2021 February 27, Olivia Ho, “Shakira, but make it mediaeval: Bardcore takes today's music back in time”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 2022-08-14:

(music) A genre of music in which modern songs are covered in a medieval or ancient style, often involving the lyrics being adapted or translated into historically accurate language.


sharpsichord

A musical instrument that is a combination harp and music box operated by pins in a rotating cylinder, invented by Henry Dagg


petroplastic

A plastic produced from petroleum, as opposed to bioplastic.


Salve Regina

Borrowed from Latin salvē rēgīna (“hail, queen”), the opening of the prayer in that language.

bor+

I have often been scolded for this by Reutter, and especially when I composed a Salve Regina for twelve voices.

1884, Franz von Seeburg, translated by J. M. Toohey, Joseph Haydn: The Story of His Life, page 40:


basset recorder

en-noun

basset recorder (plural basset recorders)


descant recorder

descant recorder (plural descant recorders)

soprano recorder
soprano recorder#English


tenor recorder

(music) A recorder whose lowest note is C₄ (or otherwise in the range of B♭₄ to D₄).


bass recorder

(music) A recorder whose lowest note is F₃ (or otherwise in the range of E♭₃ to G₃).


great bass recorder

great bass recorder (plural great bass recorders)

(music) A recorder whose lowest note is C₃ (or otherwise in the range of B♭₃ to D₃).


soprano recorder

soprano recorder (plural soprano recorders)

(music) A recorder whose lowest note is C₅ (or otherwise in the range of B♭₅ to D₅).


sopranino recorder

sopranino recorder (plural sopranino recorders)

From sopranino + recorder, from Italian soprano + -ino (diminutive).

(music) A recorder whose lowest note is F₅ (or otherwise in the range of E♭₅ to G₅).


contrabass recorder

contrabass recorder (plural contrabass recorders)

(music) A recorder whose lowest note is F₂ (or otherwise in the range of E♭₂ to G₂).


garklein

garklein recorder
garklein recorder#English


great bass

great bass recorder
great bass recorder#English


treble recorder

treble recorder (plural treble recorders)

(music) A recorder whose lowest note is F₄ (or otherwise in the range of E♭₄ to G₄).


magadize

en-verb

magadize (third-person singular simple present magadizes, present participle magadizing, simple past and past participle magadized)

magadizes (present singular third-person)
magadizing (participle present)
magadized (participle past)
magadized (past)

From Ancient Greek μαγαδίζω (magadízō), from μάγαδις (mágadis).

(music, historical) To play a piece of music simultaneously at two different octaves.


deep tech

As deep tech evolved, it began to incorporate sonic bells and whistles from UK rave; chopped-up ragga, hip-hop and diva vocals, shuffling syncopations winding around the 4x4 beat, build-drop song structures, and most importantly, floor-rumbling, chest-rattling sub-bass.

2014 December 30, Dominic Morris, “Deep tech: clubbing's biggest success story”, in The Guardian:


thrashgrass

The album boasts amazing stripped down country, thrashgrass and gutterbilly grit sure to burrow a way into your heart from Farmageddon artists like Jayke Orvis, The Goddamn Gallows, Highlonesome, James Hunnicutt and more.

2009, J. J. Diablo, “Danielle Colby”, in Prick, page 20:

Veteran "thrashgrass" band Days N Daze has spent more than a decade doing it themselves in a way few can match.

2020 June 21, “Bringin' it Backwards: Interview with Days N Daze”, in American Songwriter, archived from the original on 2021-02-26:

Touring in support of their EPs, Easy Listening for Jerks Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, released earlier this year, folk-bluegrass act the Dead South hit Grinders KC with country-roots act Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and the thrashgrass of Tejon Street Corner Thieves.

2022 August 22, Chris Ortiz, “Photos: The Dead South heat up Grinders Friday night”, in The Pitch, archived from the original on 2022-10-22:

A music genre that mixes traditional thrash music with bluegrass.


void coefficient

en-noun

void coefficient (plural void coefficients)

Because the Chernobyl reactor had a large positive void coefficient, the reaction accelerated rapidly once the coolant water started to boil.

(nuclear physics, engineering) A coefficient quantifying how the reactivity of a nuclear reactor changes due to the formation of bubbles in the reactor's coolant.


pandemonium effect

If we have a beta decay that suffers from the pandemonium effect, the mean gamma energies will be underestimated and the beta energies will be overestimated.

2012, Amir Mesquita, Nuclear Reactors, page 78:

The pandemonium effect obviously has major consequences for decay heat calculations.

2014, Juha Äystö, Tommi Eronen, Ari Jokinen, IGISOL, page 247:

(physics) A problem that leads to inaccurate results from high-resolution gamma ray detectors in cases of beta decay when the decay product has a large Q value because the decay product has too many possible energy excitation levels with too much variation in the amount of energy emitted by different levels.


bubble-pink

bubble pink:

The antechamber to the screening room is a bubble-pink gallery, compatible with Jeff Burton’s candylike C-prints that will hang there.

2001 July 13, Ellen Berkovitch, “Unfurling ‘Beau Monde’”, in The Santa Fe New Mexican, page 66:

“You look bored,” she said, with an overplayed moue on her bubble-pink lips.

2013, Steven Brust, Skyler White, The Incrementalists, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN:

Mermaidcore is one iteration of the style, with a focus on long, aquamarine or bubblepink hair.

2021 September 28, Priya Elan, “From minimalist to menocore! The 21 biggest style tribes of 2021”, in The Guardian:

Faced with metallic bubble-pink leather and designed with an elegant arch, they’ll satisfy any material girl.

2022 June 8, Gennady Oreshkin, “Some Like It Hot”, in Prestige Hong Kong:


samvadi

(music) The second most prominent note of a given raga.


TRU

TRU waste

With repeated cycles of equilibration and salt transfers between the donor and acceptor, essentially all of the TRU content is transported to the Zn–Mg alloy.

1995, Thomas E. Carleson et al., editors, Separation Techniques in Nuclear Waste Management, CRC Press, →ISBN:


Rabindra Sangeet

Transliteration of Bengali রবীন্দ্রসঙ্গীত (robindrośoṅgit).

translit

রবীন্দ্রসঙ্গীত

The collection of songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore.


specific activity

en-noun

specific activity (plural specific activities)

(physics) The activity per unit mass of a radionuclide: number of decays per unit time, per mass.


pyroculture

pyroculture (countable and uncountable, plural pyrocultures)

Furthermore, as pointed out earlier, traditional pyro-culture did not include the total destruction or removal of trees. Undisturbed tree roots served to bind soil particles together and to prevent sheet erosion. Traditional African farmers recognized that it is easier to restore nutrients to exhausted soils than to "rebuild" a soil after it has "collapsed" in physical terms (Lal & Greenland, 1979).

1991, Sam L. J. Page & Helán E. Page, "Western Hegemony over African Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia and its Continuing Threat to Food Security in Independent Zimbabwe", Agriculture and Human Values, Fall 1991, page 12

The colonization by the British initially was a relief to the Shona in that it enabled them to resume their original management practices for farming (pyro-culture) and natural resource use (slash and burn).

1999, Wybe Van Halsema, "Endogenous Development of Natural Resource Management in Communal Areas of Southern Zimbabwe: A Case Study Approach", dissertation submitted to the University of South Africa, page 117

Success depended on technologies or innovations such as shifting cultivation and pyro-culture (slash and burn), both of which were characterised by minimum disturbance of the soil (Manyanga, 2006), which in contemporary language could be minimum or zero-tillage.

2013, Collin Calvin Mabiza, "Integrated Water Resources Management, Institutions and Livelihoods Under Stress: Bottom-Up Perspectives from Zimbabwe", dissertation submitted to Delft University of Technology, page 99


handbag house

(music) A subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.


(music) A 415 Hertz musical pitch, which usually serves as the tuning standard for the note A above middle C in baroque pitch.


prescribed burn

prescribed burn (plural prescribed burns)


pyrocultural

en-adj

pyrocultural (comparative more pyrocultural, superlative most pyrocultural)

more pyrocultural (comparative)
most pyrocultural (superlative)

From pyro- + cultural or pyroculture + -al.

Reinterpreting early eyewitness accounts and visual records, Gammage enables the reader to ‘see’ what was once invisible: a land intentionally shaped by skilful pyrocultural interventions.

2020, Jeremy Walker, More Heat Then Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy and Economics, page 61:

This first pyrocultural activity entailed the chemical reduction of ore minerals in charcoal-burning furnaces.

2016, Mike Leeder, Joy Lawlor, GeoBritannica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples:

Due to his ingenuity Homo learned to unleash the energy of wood by taming wild fire and stepped into the pyrocultural age.

2018, Johannes Deutsch, “Exploring energy related knowledge in technology and natural science education: Uncovering energy related understanding of students in the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia at the end of lower secondary education”, in Marc J. de Vries et al., editors, Research in Technology Education: International Approaches, page 45:


controlled burn

en-noun

controlled burn (plural controlled burns)

A wildfire or brushfire set intentionally and carefully managed for purposes of fire suppression, agriculture, ecological management, etc.


pyrocentric

en-adj

pyrocentric (comparative more pyrocentric, superlative most pyrocentric)

more pyrocentric (comparative)
most pyrocentric (superlative)

To Pythagoras himself has been frequently ascribed the idea of a pyrocentric Kosmos—with worlds revolving round a central sun—according to the Copernican, or, to speak more accurately, the Newtonian scheme.

1874, Bernard H. Becker, Scientific London, page 302:

Apollyon, who, as god of the sun, has a certain stake in the matter, teaches the Prior the truth of what the Greeks, Pythagoras' disciples, knew many years before— the nature of the heliocentric (or pyrocentric) planetary system.

1967, Gerald Cornelius Monsman, Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater, pages 187–188:

All the same, some 2000 years later Copernicus would refer to Philolaus' pyrocentric world model for support of the idea that the Earth is a circularly moving planet.

2007, Helge S. Kragh, Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology, page 16:

(astronomy, history) Of or relating to the Pythagorean astronomical system, which posited that the Earth, Moon, Sun, and planets orbit an invisible "Central Fire".

The result of that sojourn was a book called The Ice, a meditation on the planet's southernmost continent which—from Pyne's admittedly pyrocentric viewpoint—is also one of the few nearly fireless places, oceans aside, on the face of the earth.

1991, William Cronon, "Forward: Eucalypt History", in Stephen J. Pyne, Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia (1998 ed.), page x

In contrast, the pyrocentric hypothesis holds that fire is a major consumer shaping the patterns, structure, and composition of vegetation.

2019, William J. Bond, Open Ecosystems: Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge, page 100:

The prominent scholar of fire, Stephen Pyne (2018) argues we are pyrophilic creatures, immersed in pyrocentric civilisations whose 'new combustion regime based on fossil biomass' has resulted in a pyric transition that has not only shaped our technologies, mobility and habitation patterns, but also our values and relationships with landscapes.

2020, Jason Alexandra, “Burning Bush and Disaster Justice in Victoria, Australia: Can Regional Planning Prevent Brushfires Becoming Disasters?”, in Anna Lukasiewicz, Claudia Baldwin, editors, Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours, page 77:

Centering fire as a key force in nature, civilization, etc.


neomodal

(music) Relating to the use of adapted ancient modes in modern music.


mirror fugue

(music) A piece of music consisting of two fugues, one of which is the mirror image of the other.


canon by contrary motion

en-noun

canon by contrary motion (plural canons by contrary motion)


mirror canon

(music) A canon in which the leading voice is played alongside its own inversion, i.e. upside down.


neotonality

(music) The replacement of the tonality of the common-practice period (i.e. functional harmony and tonic-dominant relationships) by one or more non-traditional tonal conceptions, such as tonal assertion or contrapuntal motion around a central chord.


undecuplet

(music) A group of eleven notes, typically to be played in place of eight.


musical comedy

musical comedy (countable and uncountable, plural musical comedies)


comic opera

comic opera (countable and uncountable, plural comic operas)

(music) A sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue.


nazard

(music) An organ stop for the third harmonic.


blackgaze

California’s Deafheaven are blackgaze’s de facto poster boys, the most likely to open up black metal to an even wider audience.

2015 October 5, Tom Howells, “Blackgaze: meet the bands taking black metal out of the shadows”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music) A fusion music genre combining elements of black metal and shoegaze.


torch drive

(science fiction) A spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion.


torchship

Compound of torch (“a torch drive”) + ship.

com+

(science fiction) A spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).


acousmonium

en-noun

acousmonium (plural acousmoniums or acousmonia)

acousmoniums (plural)
acousmonia (plural)

(music) A large loudspeaker orchestra used for electroacoustic music performances.


minus-one

(Philippines, music) instrumental where vocals have been removed; backing track


Parliamentary red

A red colour used by the House of Lords.


Parliamentary green

A green colour used by the House of Commons.


butt-rock

Said to have begun as a parody of the phrase nothing but rock, reanalyzed as butt + rock.

Somebody wrote this ad copy who doesn't know anything about music, probably just listens to your average butt-rock AOR (adult-oriented-rock) station.

1994 August 7, James Muretich, quoting Kim Thayil, “This is Soundgarten: Kickstarting Rock in the Right Direction”, in Calgary Herald, page A11:

Butt-rock is just the stupidest, three-chord rock that you can possibly play, and it works with big crowds like this who don’t know you as a band.

1995, Chris Nickson, quoting Matt Cameron, Soundgarten: New Metal Crown, page 175:

But just before high school, through some new friends, I'd become acquainted with metal and some serious 1980s butt-rock! Musically, it wasn't my taste, but I did take well to the butt-rock ballads and the boys in the bands.

2012, Terryn Sundy, You're Not A Ninja, And No You Can't Spend The Night!, page 136:

“You're the one who’s the cold fish! And I do care, you know I hate Butt Rock and I came anyways to support you! Why do you think I’m here? I was just a little late.”
“It’s called Alternative Rock, not Butt Rock! How many times do I have to tell you?”

2018, Eve Harms, The Secret Name, page 33:

(derogatory, informal, humorous) Rock and roll music of a style or subgenre disparaged as uninteresting or out of fashion.


(physics) A radioactive isotope of uranium, ²³⁸₉₂U, having a half-life of 4.5 billion years; it accounts for about 99.3% of natural uranium.


(physics) A radioactive isotope of uranium, ²³⁴₉₂U, having a half-life of about 250,000 years; it accounts for about 55 parts per million of natural uranium; it is a member of the uranium-238 decay chain (aka "uranium series").


(physics) A radioactive isotope of uranium, ²³³₉₂U, having a half-life of about 160,000 years; it is fissile.


(physics) The radioactive isotope of gold, ¹⁹⁸₇₉Au, with a half-life of about 2.7 days.


copy song

Borrowed from Burmese ကော်ပီသီချင်း (kaupisihkyang:).

bor+

ကော်ပီသီချင်း

(Myanmar, music) A song written to the tune of another existing song.


Revolutionary

(music, informal) Chopin's 'Revolutionary Etude' Op. 10 no. 12.


emophobe

Cloudy insight aside, the emo-phobes write catchy songs with a pop-punk flavor.

2005 January 20, Chelsea Mueller, “The Letter Kills”, in Phoenix New Times:

When Tim Kinsella, of the pioneering indie rock groups Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, wrote a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the emo-centric magazine Alternative Press imploring every band inside to break up, Bemis bristled at Kinsella’s cynicism, calling him a “self-hating emophobe” in a letter to the magazine.

2006 November 2, August Brown, “Don’t get comfortable around them”, in Los Angeles Times:

But Greene's ingratiating persona and understated (for this style of music) metaphors should remain grounded enough to not deter even the most gung-ho emo-phobes.

2014 December 24, Joshua Levine, “Soundbites”, in Tuscon Weekly:

(informal, rare) One who dislikes emo music and/or the emo subculture.


emokid

Their major-label debut, For Your Own Special Sweetheart, became a touchstone for many emokids—a bracing hardcore record that used studio-savvy production to focus the band’s ferocity and intelligence.

1999 November, Jeff Salamon, “Emotional Rescue”, in Spin, page 144:

If you like emo, your chances are good that this Karate will deliver that kick to the heart that emokids so desire and musicphiles lust after.

2002 September, Kiera Ormut-Fleishman, “Spittin' in my eye”, in The Innis Herald, Innis College, Toronto, ON, page 4:

In the absence of a home-grown musical scene, Bulgarian emokids find expression of their inner selves in particular fashion items available on the market.

2014, Valentina Gueorguieva, “Subcultural Styles and Ideologies on the Market of Identities”, in Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo, Ángel Mateos-Aparicio, editors, Constructing Selves: Issues in Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Nation, page 110:

(slang) A young member of the emo music scene or subculture.


Kremnitz white

From confusion of Kremnitz in Austria-Hungary (now Kremnica, Slovakia) with Krems, Austria, the actual location of the galena mines that previously produced exceptionally pure white lead.

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure form of lead oxide, particularly as used for paints.”)


Yodaya

Borrowed from Burmese ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:), ultimately from Thai อยุธยา (à-yút-tá-yaa, “Ayutthaya”).

မဟာဂီတ မဟာဂီတ#Burmese

(music) Yodaya, a genre of Burmese classical music; see မဟာဂီတ (ma.hagita.)


fission product

en-noun

fission product (plural fission products)


fission fragment

fission fragment (plural fission fragments)

One of the fragments (smaller nuclei) left over after a nucleus fissions (spontaneous or induced).


decay constant

In a radioactive material, an atom's probability, per unit time, of decaying; it is related to half-life by the equation t_1/2=(ln 2)/λ, where t_1/2 is the half-life, and λ is the decay constant.


ITER

(experimental reactor): originally an acronym, now explained as derived from Latin iter (“way, path”).

(nuclear physics) Acronym of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.


technetium star

technetium star (plural technetium stars)

(astrophysics) A star in which technetium has been detected. This is significant because technetium is too short-lived to occur primordially in the star, if the star is about 4.5 billion years old (the estimated age of the Earth), so the star must be producing technetium.


Travis picking

Named after US bluegrass and country musician Merle Travis who popularised the technique.

A guitar fingerpicking technique in which the thumb plays an alternating bassline while a syncopated melody line is played with the index and/or middle finger.


palm mute

en-verb

palm mute (third-person singular simple present palm mutes, present participle palm muting, simple past and past participle palm muted)

palm mutes (present singular third-person)
palm muting (participle present)
palm muted (participle past)
palm muted (past)

(music) To soften the sound of the strings of a guitar (or other stringed instrument) by placing the palm of the strumming or picking hand lightly across the strings near the bridge while playing.


resonator guitar

en-noun

resonator guitar (plural resonator guitars)

(music) A type of steel-string guitar with a metal resonator attached to the front.


steel-string guitar

steel-string guitar (plural steel-string guitars)

(music) A type of acoustic guitar designed to be strung with metal strings.


double-course

(music) Of a stringed instrument, having pairs of strings, commonly tuned an octave apart.


single-course

(music) Of a stringed instrument, having a set of single strings.


thumbpick

(music) A type of plectrum that clips on to, or wraps around the end of the thumb.


thumbpick

en-verb

thumbpick (third-person singular simple present thumbpicks, present participle thumbpicking, simple past and past participle thumbpicked)

thumbpicks (present singular third-person)
thumbpicking (participle present)
thumbpicked (participle past)
thumbpicked (past)

(music) To use the thumb to pluck individual strings of a stringed instrument, usually to supply the bass part.


(physics) An isotope of californium, ²⁵²₉₈Cf, with a half-life of 2.6 years; it is popular as a source of neutrons.


dragonflame

The records of the battle speak only of rolling smoke and of dragonflame mixed with the white fire of the three Ancients.

1981 November, David J[ames] Ritchie, “A History of the Third Fomorian War: The Last Struggle and Decline of the Sidh in Albion”, in Ares, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Simulations Publications, Inc., section “The Great Worm”, page 7, column 2:

She felt her skin pop and eyes melt in the blast of dragonflame, and the snapping of her bones as his teeth skewered her—

1985, Dave Smeds, The Sorcery Within, New York, N.Y.: Ace Fantasy Books, →ISBN, page 272:

Already weakened by blasts of dragonflame, the dome cracked under the force of impact, and a moment later half of it came tumbling down, crushing both dragon and dragonslayers under tons of broken stone and rubble.

2013, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “The Princess and the Queen, or, The Blacks and the Greens”, in George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, editors, Dangerous Women, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, pages 765–766:


dragonfire

“Spurs!” Imbri sent in a dream like a blast of dragonfire. “Hotter than the breath of Baal, your thought! But I don’t use the spurs, once my steed is tame,” he argued.

1982, Piers Anthony, Night Mare, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 100:

With a roar of dragonfire something enormous blazed by overhead, as if the Moon itself were dropping onto us.

1982, Mike Scott Rohan, Run to the Stars, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 14:

At the same time, it made me desperate to get to Ember. To get us all out of here and find someplace safe before the world exploded in a hellstorm of dragonfire.

2017, Julie Kagawa, Legion, HQ, →ISBN, page 210:


octave species

(music) In Ancient Greek music, a specific sequence of intervals within an octave.


Przybylski's Star

After astronomer Antoni Przybylski, who discovered it.

A star, about 356 light-years from Earth and in the constellation Centaurus; in which actinides, up to and including at least einsteinium, have been detected.


Liszt fever

We all had heard of the phenomenon that was sweeping across Europe wherever the pianist, Franz Liszt, played. […] Most troubling, at least to the men who reported it, was that it was not maids or shopgirls who were succumbing to Liszt fever but respectable wives and daughters, well-trained women who should have known better.

2013 September, Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe, New York, NY: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 163:

(music, historical) Synonym of Lisztomania.


tontipop

(music) a Spanish genre and scene which draws directly from British twee pop, as well as yé-yé, bubblegum, and synthpop.


interstellar ramjet

en-noun

interstellar ramjet (plural interstellar ramjets)


artificial element

artificial element (plural artificial elements)


synthetic element

synthetic element (plural synthetic elements)

A chemical element that does not occur naturally (on Earth) and must be synthesized (manufactured).


continent of stability

continent of stability (plural continents of stability)

(nuclear physics) A hypothetical group of (presumably superheavy, likely beyond oganesson) chemical elements and isotopes that would be relatively long-lived, if not stable. Like an island of stability but larger.


tonal noise

(acoustics) Noise that is a pure tone so that it is concentrated in a narrow frequency band


acoustic impedance

(acoustics) Degree of opposition that a system presents to an acoustic flow. Reciprocal of acoustic admittance.


filksinging

A closer examination of one specific evening of filksinging (the Friday night session of Philcon 1989) will allow a more concrete discussion of how a conception of cultural inclusion and social integration has been structured into the filking process.

1992, Henry Jenkins, “"Strangers No More, We Sing": Filk Music, Folk Culture, and the Fan Community”, in Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 255–256:

(fandom slang) The act of singing filk songs ("songs about or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, etc.").


sea of instability

sea of instability (plural seas of instability)

(nuclear physics) The vast body of short-lived isotopes outside the stable or long-lived ones (which form a "curve" on the table of nuclides).


pyrodiverse

en-adj

pyrodiverse (comparative more pyrodiverse, superlative most pyrodiverse)

more pyrodiverse (comparative)
most pyrodiverse (superlative)

(ecology) Of an environment or ecosystem, subject to variation in the kinds of fire experienced, whether produced by natural conditions or controlled burning.


supergrade

Of plutonium: containing a very small portion of isotopes other than plutonium-239 (especially plutonium-240) (usually less than perhaps 3%), making the plutonium especially suitable for nuclear weapons


LENR

en-noun

LENR (countable and uncountable, plural LENRs)

Acronym for low-energy nuclear reaction(s).

Synonym for cold fusion (nuclear fusion near room temperature).


nuclear poison

Something that absorbs neutrons very well, hence sabotaging a nuclear chain reaction


nuclear halo

nuclear halo (plural nuclear halos or nuclear haloes)

nuclear halos (plural)
nuclear haloes (plural)

A bunch of protons and/or neutrons orbiting a nucleus, giving the nucleus a bigger radius than it should have. Such a nucleus is called a halo nucleus.


nuclear radiation

nuclear radiation (countable and uncountable, plural nuclear radiations)


nuclear fallout

nuclear fallout (countable and uncountable, plural nuclear fallouts)

In reference to such material falling out of the sky.

(uncountable) Residual radioactive material in the upper atmosphere which settles down to Earth over a protracted period; typically ash which has been propelled upwards by a nuclear explosion or disaster, sometimes mixed with rain or snow.

تَهَاطُل نَوَوِيّ

radioactive material in the atmosphere which settles down to Earth


AOTY

AOTY (countable and uncountable, plural AOTYs)

Into the Unknown is my AOTY without question, followed by SOTLB and Morningrise respectively.

2011 February 16, audiophile, “Re: 1996”, in alt.music.judas-priest (Usenet):

(slang, music) Initialism of album of the year. (music)


enharmonicism

(music) The use of enharmonic modulation.


Jankó keyboard

Designed by Paul von Jankó, a Hungarian pianist and engineer, in 1882.

(music) A kind of piano keyboard that, instead of one long row of keys, has an array of keys consisting of two interleaved manuals with three touch-points for every key lever, making six rows of keys. Each vertical column of three keys is a semitone away from the neighboring ones, which are in the alternate rows.


common practice period

(music, historical) An era of European music, lasting from the mid-Baroque period though the Classical and Romantic periods (around 1650–1900).


dronescape

Most of the sounds had been made by Eno's own hand, although Michael Brook, Daniel Lanois and Bill Laswell (and his Material bandmate, keyboardist Michael Beinhorn and guitarist Axel Gros) would have found earlier contributions peeking through Eno's murmuring, quivering dronescapes.

2008, David Sheppard, On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, pages 355–356:

Waves of sound are layered but don't disappear, and [Robert] Fripp sends textural pieces soaring with his signature sustain, creating a kind of dronescape continuum.

2010, Will Romano, Mountains Come Out of the Sky: An Illustrated History of Prog Rock, Milwaukee, W.I.: Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 190:

Nineteen eighty-nine's "How Does It Feel" was seven minutes of minimal electro blips, lightly phased, over a three-note guitar dronescape, with [Peter] Kember asking repeatedly, "So tell me, how does it feel?"

2014, Bob Stanley, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music From Bill Haley to Beyoncé, New York. N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 509:

Branch held her pinging watch alarm up to the microphones, kicked her floor tambourine, and the band collectively developed a dronescape.

2021 December 14, Martin Longley, “Jaimie Branch gets Enjoy Jazz jumping”, in Jazzwise, London: Jazzwise Publications Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-15:

Elsewhere, the violist Mona Tian — an expert in the string quartet music of Wadada Leo Smith — was liable to place a dollop of edgy timbre or rhythmic pulsations into the dronescape whenever things threatened to go slack.

2023 April 23, Seth Colter Walls, “Now Celebrated, Julius Eastman's Music Points to a New Canon”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-28:

(music) A soundscape or acoustic environment consisting of repetitive droning noises.


uraniumaire

A millionaire whose wealth was acquired through uranium mining.


oil terminal

An industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical products

مُسْتَوْدَع نِفْط

an industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical products


lunarcrete

Researcher Larry Beyer of the University of Pittsburgh says a lunarcrete project would begin with the shipment of two molds and a work crew from Earth. First, the workers would bolt together an inner mold. It would be pressure tight and would serve as their temporary quarters. Then they'd erect an outer mold with a six-foot gap from the inner mold.

1990, David Gump, Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA, New York, N.Y., Westport, C.T., London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 190:

Lunarcrete or mooncrete could be made from lunar regolith, water and cement with the cement manufactured from lunar rock with a high calcium content.

2016, Louisa Preston, Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe, London: Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN, page 265:

One method is to combine regolith with a bonding agent to create lunar concrete (aka. "lunarcrete"), which can be printed out to build structures. In terms of benefits, lunarcrete requires less energy to produce than other building materials, is unaffected by extreme variations in temperature, absorbs harmful radiation, and is unaffected by prolonged exposure to vacuum.

2021 December 13, Matthew S. Williams, “The Logistics of Going "Interplanetary": What Does It Take to Live on the Moon?”, in Interesting Engineering, archived from the original on 2023-03-10:

This paper provides a fundamental basis for future research on confinement and strengthening for future coarse aggregate-free concretes, such as lunarcrete and 3D-printed concrete.

2023 February 15, Cheng Jiang, “Strength enhancement due to FRP confinement for coarse aggregate-free concrete”, in Engineering Structures, volume 277, New York, N.Y.: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon.


Shibuya-kei

Borrowed from Japanese 渋谷系(しぶやけい) (shibuyakei, “Shibuya style”).

ja-r

(music) A Japanese pop music subgenre and fashion aesthetic of the mid- to late 1990s, inspired by 1960s culture and Western pop music.


doom rock

More industrial rhythms and gothic, doom rock combined with suitably mocking voice to express the dark matters afoot in the songs, which this time dwell on the subject of suicide, making Manson the latest in a long line of heavy metal artists to do so.

2006, Steve Taylor, The A to X of Alternative Music, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 144:

They're not death metal; they're calling it doom rock. It's essentially an updated version of early 70s Sabbath.

[2007 March 16, Paul Lester, quoting Elijah Wood, “Frodo gets funky”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

By the 1990s goth had given rise to more broadly popular subgenres like ‘death rock’ and ‘doom rock’, whose stars, people like Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor, used self-harm as a significant motif within their lives and lyrics.

2015, Peter Steggals, Making Sense of Self-harm: The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury, Springer, →ISBN:

(music) A subgenre of rock music influenced by hard rock, protometal, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, and blues, commonly incorporating lyrics about the occult or referencing horror movies and books.


qilaut

A type of frame drum used mostly by the Inuit.


yehu

A bowed string instrument in the huqin family.


cybergrind

A microgenre of grindcore that emerged from the late 1990s, which includes mass use of keyboards and synthesizers as well as samples from various media, such as video games and movies.


smoke diver

Secondly, the fire detectors will immediately call the fire extinguishing crew who have at their disposal smoke diver equipment and extinguishing material.

1952, Ingeniørvidenskabelige skrifter, page 62:

He wasn't just satisfied to be a firefighter, he [became a] smoke diver as well. He also wanted to be a fire chief.

This was one of three drills experienced firefighters from across the nation had to complete Tuesday as part of a weeklong training course to become certified as smoke divers.

2012 November 14, Joy Lukachick Smith, “Rigorous Smoke Diver training challenges firefighters in Dalton”, in Chattanooga Times Free Press:

A smoke diver is considered an “interior attack firefighter” specially trained to carry out rescues and extinguish flames while wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus.

2020 July 23, Mark Webber, “Smoke Diver: Gruner completes challenging course in emergency response and disaster training”, in The Republic:

A firefighter with breathing apparatus who enters smoke-filled rooms and buildings (to search, rescue, and extinguish).


doom folk

While best known for lending her haunting pipes to doom-folk troupe Espers, Meg Baird's quavering voice reveals itself as singularly lucid and enchanting on her solo work.


punk-rocky

en-adj

punk-rocky (comparative more punk-rocky, superlative most punk-rocky)

more punk-rocky (comparative)
most punk-rocky (superlative)

Harvard's WHRB (FM 95.3) has everything from the punk-rocky “Record Hospital” at night to the country-ish “Hillbilly At Harvard” on Saturday mornings.

1998 January 24, “Boston: Vital Statistics (The Billboard Spotlight)”, in Billboard, volume 110, number 4, →ISSN, page 52:

(music) In the style of punk rock music.


acoustic admittance

(acoustics) A measure of the flow of acoustic energy, the reciprocal of acoustic impedance.


mooncrete

He gestured at the mooncrete. "Great stuff, huh? And another case of the Builders showing off. They not only make us a moon; they make us one that will remain forever new."

1988, David F Nighbert, Timelapse, Headline, →ISBN, page 159:

The driver slowed down to a crawl; the vehicle's inflated wheels bumped slightly as they moved onto a mooncrete ramp, then the bus began rolling downward toward a pair of double doors.

2007, Allen Steele, Spindrift, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 20:

The design emphasized the use of extra-terrestrial materials preferably from the Moon. "Mooncrete" – or lunar concrete – should be produced by processing lunar rocks in a factory.

2017 March, Werner Grandl, “Human life in the Solar System”, in REACH, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

An otherworldly project is underway. A researcher at the University of Miami is currently making "mooncrete," a material he hopes to perfect for building a habitable base on the moon.

2019 July 25, Tate Jacaruso, “Thanks To A Miami Researcher We Might Actually Be Building A Habitable Base On The Moon Soon”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 2021-06-14:

Synonym of lunarcrete (“a hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon”).


kalaleng

A type of nose flute made from bamboo from the Philippines.


irradiation sickness

en-noun

irradiation sickness (usually uncountable, plural irradiation sicknesses)

radiation sickness
radiation sickness#English


moonship

The space agency has requested the Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. to develop a method for controlling trace contaminants inside a spacecraft. […] Unlike the Earth's atmosphere, the air inside a moonship doesn't get cleaned by rains or winds.

1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, pages 22–24:

Other kits were for making aeroplanes, one a scale model of the Scandinavian Air Lines Douglas D.C.-8 which was expected to make the first flight from Britain to Los Angeles in April 1960. There was also a moonship of a type which the firm said will eventually reach the moon: all of which goes to show that sometimes toys precede the actual event and are not necessarily mementoes which come afterwards.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 144:

(astronautics, science fiction) A spaceship designed for travelling to the Moon.


chart-topper

(music) A recording or artist that sells the most copies during a particular time.


bee violet

bee violet (countable and uncountable, plural bee violets)

Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.

2010, Martha Scott, Honey Bee, Where Are You?:

To a bee, it is a carelessly formed, perhaps Impressionistic world in which movement carries great meaning and in which the richness of color is extended to endow two flowers, each an insipid white to us, with radically different shades of "bee-violet."

2013, Arthur C. Giese, Photophysiology, page 79:

A color visible to bees that has a frequency of about 400 mμ, spanning a portion of the spectrum that covers violet blue through the lower frequencies of the ultraviolet range.


backdoor progression

backdoor progression (plural backdoor progressions)

A backdoor progression in C (Fm⁷→B♭⁷→C):
{1}

A chord progression of iv⁷ to ♭VII⁷ to I, common in jazz.


accpt.

accpt. (countable and uncountable, plural accpts.)


wavestacking

(music) The summing of waveforms to create a composite sound.


light barrier

On the grounds that special relativity predicts that no object can travel faster than light. Compare sound barrier.

The speed of light, seen as a barrier to faster-than-light travel.


chazzanut

Why is having a chazan equated with a solo performance? My husband and I do the chazanut for our congregation because the rabbi cannot sing well enough to lead the congregation.

1996 August 30, Shirah Winicur, “Boring Reform services”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

Jewish liturgical music, as performed by a cantor.


ferrinho

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

A type of percussion instrument originating Cape Verde.


kemanak

A type of percussion instrument used in Javanese music.


smoke diving

Mr. Phillips in his letter appears to confound the smoke respirator of Mr. Roberts, with the "smoke diving apparatus" of the late Mr. Deane (patented by him in 1823), which has for some time past been most successfully employed by the firemen of the London Fire Brigade

1849, Wm. Baddley, Mechanics Magazine, volume 50 (letter), page 7:

According to the questionnaire, the most demanding fire-fighting and rescue tasks on physical work capacity in terms of cardio-respiratory capacity, muscular performance and motor coordination were smoke-diving, which requires the use of full personal protective equipment, clearing tasks with heavy manual tools, and roof work, respectively.

1997, Åsa Kilbom, Nordic Research on the Elderly Workforce, page 33:

This advanced course covers smoke diving, tactical control, organised control of smoke divers and search and rescue.

2001, Lloyd's Ship Manager: LSM, page 40:

Fire-fighting work that requires the use of protective equipment resembling that used by marine divers.


bedug

A type of percussion instrument used in gamelan music.


khartal

A type of ancient percussion instrument in South Asia.


dollu

A type of double-headed drum used in Karnataka.


janggu

A type of percussion instrument used in traditional Korean music.


freetekno

(music) A style of electronic music associated with these parties.


kebero

A type of double-headed drum used in Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia.


maddale

A type of percussion instrument used in Karnataka, India.


Bach trumpet

From its use in playing the high trumpet parts in music by Johann Sebastian Bach.


C melody

(music) A kind of saxophone, larger than an alto and smaller than a tenor, pitched in the key of C one whole tone above the common B-flat tenor saxophone.


tambori

A type of percussion instrument used in sardana music of Catalonia.


samphor

A type of double-headed barrel drum used in Cambodia.


tbilat

A type of drum from Morocco that resembles bongos.


taphon

A type of double-headed barrel drum used in Thailand.


complextro

Blend of complex + electro [2010], coined by American DJ Porter Robinson.

A subgenre of electro house electronic dance music with intricate glitchy basslines and chiptune effects.


atenteben

A type of bamboo flute from Ghana that is played vertically.


fiscorn

A deep-sounding brass instrument from Catalonia in the cobla.


jingle-jangle

Something that makes such sound, such as a trinket or ornament.


jingle-jangle

en-verb

jingle-jangle (third-person singular simple present jingle-jangles, present participle jingle-jangling, simple past and past participle jingle-jangled)

jingle-jangles (present singular third-person)
jingle-jangling (participle present)
jingle-jangled (participle past)
jingle-jangled (past)

(intransitive) To make a jingling or jangling sound.


horagai

A kind of trumpet that made from conch shells, originating from Japan.


khloy

A kind of flute made out of bamboo from Cambodia.


khlui

A kind of flute made out of bamboo from Thailand, similar to the khloy.


chord organ

An electronic musical instrument having a single short keyboard and a set of chord buttons, enabling the musician to play a melody or lead with one hand and accompanying chords with the other.


kagurabue

A kind of transverse bamboo flute with six or seven holes from Japan.


Mastodonian

(Internet) A user of the decentralized social media platform Mastodon.


komabue

A kind of transverse flute made out of bamboo from Japan.


meaow

meaow (third-person singular simple present meaows, present participle meaowing, simple past and past participle meaowed)

meaows (present singular third-person)
meaowing (participle present)
meaowed (participle past)
meaowed (past)


daycore

From day + -core, coined by analogy with nightcore (“a style of music based on taking an original track and speeding it up and increasing its pitch”).

a daycore remix

Perhaps extending from their relative ubiquity on TikTok's predecessor Musical.ly, nightcore audios have a strong presence on the app; so do their opposites, "daycore" or "anti-nightcore" remixes, in which tracks are slowed down for a heady, sluggish effect.

2020 December 21, Cat Zhang, “The Year in Music on TikTok 2020”, in Pitchfork, archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

If you've heard of the reverb + slowed trend, congrats, you've been listening to music on YouTube. The slowed trend is just one of many YouTube music trends, earlier versions of which include Nightcore and Daycore.

2022 June 3, Allia Luzong, “7 Weirdly Specific YouTube Channels That Are Perfect for Procrastinating”, in A Little Bit Human, archived from the original on 2023-03-27:

(Internet slang, music) A style of music in which a song is slowed down and lowered in pitch.


spoon chime

A type of wind chime made with metal spoons.


unda maris

From Latin unda maris (literally “sea wave”).

(music) An organ stop similar to the voix céleste, but typically using a dulciana or a softer-scale string (or even flutes).


Haylor

Though their relationship was brief, Haylor was all anyone who was chronically online during the era of One Direction could talk about for the four months these two were dating.

2023 July 8, Naydeline Mejia, “Taylor Swift And All Of Her Ex-Boyfriends' Body Language, Explained”, in Women's Health:

(slang) The couple consisting of English singer-songwriter Harry Styles and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, together briefly in 2012.


Memphis rap

Dungeon rap is a new hybrid style of hip-hop created by Yatsun. It merges Memphis rap – a style of lo-fi atmospheric southern hip-hop made popular by the likes of Three Six Mafia in the late 80s and early 90s – and dungeon synth, a sub-genre that blossomed in 1990s Scandinavia blending dark ambient and black metal.

2023 July 12, Daniel Dylan Wray, “‘I don’t believe in the idea of a future’: the Ukrainian producer who invented dungeon rap”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music) A subgenre of hip hop that originated in Memphis, Tennessee in the mid-late 1980s.


kuzhal

A type of double reed musical instrument used in Kerala, India.


lusheng

A type of mouth organ with multiple pipes with a free reed used by the Hmong people.


refinger

refinger (third-person singular simple present refingers, present participle refingering, simple past and past participle refingered)

refingers (present singular third-person)
refingering (participle present)
refingered (participle past)
refingered (past)

(transitive, music) To finger again or differently.


regal purple

en-noun

regal purple (countable and uncountable, plural regal purples)


pigfuck

Originally coined by American music journalist (born 1942) Robert Christgau in 1983 to derisively describe the raucous sound of Sonic Youth. Later took on a meaning of its own, describing a style not specifically associated with the band.

coin

Finally, there's the folks at Sub Pop, who've cashed in on this new Singlesmania big-time, turning every indie/pigfuck record buyer into a rabid collector by deliberately limiting the pressings of their Singles Of The Month and then finding the hippest bands around to record.

1989 September, Jim Testa, Jersey Beat, number 38, Weehawken, N.J.: Jim Testa, →OCLC, Constant Listener, page 26:

The camera is facing Slash’s back, so there is no way to see his reaction to the song that he is accompanying, but the crowd—thrown by the initial “cops and niggers,” even though Axl [Rose] builds a reaction into the song; “that’s right,” he sings, as if to say yes, I intended to say that—has caught up by the time he sings “immigrants and faggots,” and giggles appreciatively. It’s the Pussy Galore, Big Black, pigfuck era in post-punk terms. A lot of shit has been said at CB’s; this is just more.

2007, Eric Weisbard, Use Your Illusion I and II (33⅓), New York: Continuum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:

Monumentally caustic but hypothetically a dance band, Sleigh Bells sculpt infectious double-dutch funk from an unlikely acid bath of distorted drum machines and nasal pigfuck guitars.

2010 July, Christopher R. Weingarten, Spin, volume 26, number 6, New York, N.Y.: SPIN Media LLC., →ISSN, →OCLC, Reviews [Albums], page 90:

That band [Shellac] hit the ground sprinting with 1994’s At Action Park, a thunderous debut that seemed obsessed with one-upping all the pigfuck and post-rock outfits that had sprung up in Albini’s wake.

2014 July 30, Jason Heller, “Steve Albini's 10 Best Records”, in Pitchfork, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, archived from the original on 2023-05-06:

In 2016, the group [Bruges] released a five-song demo of sludgy pigfuck noise-rock layered with distorted bass and ear-piercing guitar feedback, but on their brand-new singles “Through a Muted Lens” and “Atop a Precipice,” the group really show what they're made of.

2018 December, Luce Cimarusti, edited by Anne Elizabeth Moore, Chicago Reader, volume 47, number 11, Chicago, IL: STM Reader, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, Music, page 32:

(music) A genre of punk rock that originated in the 80s American underground rock scene, incorporating more noisy, transgressive, and caustic elements than tranditional punk rock and primarily associated with such acts as Big Black, Butthole Surfers, and The Jesus Lizard.


decatonic

(music) Being or relating to a musical scale of ten notes.


gecker

Coined by 1962, likely derived from Low German geck (“to mock, cackle”) from related terms such as German gackern (“to cackle”) and German keckern (“to make angry noises [of an animal]”). The same call types had previously been referred to as types of keckern in German publications. Possibly also onomatopoeic from “ik, ik, ik.”

cog

The series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.


gecker

en-verb

gecker (third-person singular simple present geckers, present participle geckering, simple past and past participle geckered)

geckers (present singular third-person)
geckering (participle present)
geckered (participle past)
geckered (past)

To make a series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.


Hetlor

Of course, all these hidden messages could be nothing but the overactive imagination of a group of largely queer Swift fans that want to claim the singer as their own. The Gaylors refer to this as the "Hetlor" thesis (Hetlor being a deeply unfortunate portmanteau of heterosexual and Taylor). Just because people see hidden messages does not mean they are there.

[2022 October 31, Joe Packer, “How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-07-25:

Dr McCann raises the Taylor Swift fandom as an example, where the "Gaylor" faction (fans dedicated to queer readings of her songs) would butt heads with the straight "Hetlor" faction.

2022 November 4, Patrick Lenton, “How 'Queerbaiting' Became Weaponised Against Real People”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-02:

(fandom slang) Opposition to the Gaylor theory; belief that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is not secretly gay.


mijwiz

A type of woodwind instrument with two pipes used in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.


paixiao

A type of pan flute with pipe holes made from notches that is from China.


saenghwang

A type of free reed mouth organ from Korea, usually having 17 pipes.


dip hop

Blend of deaf + hip-hop; coined by artist Warren "Wawa" Snipe in 2005.

Using hip hop as a foundation, dip hop emplys low frequency bass patterns for its beats and sign language for its lyrics, creating a flow between the two that is both visual and tactile.

2016, Knut Holtsträter, Michael Fischer, Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 60/61 (2015/2016): Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik 60./61. Jahrgang - 2015/2016. Musik und Protest Music and Protest, Waxmann Verlag, →ISBN, page 73:

Other practitioners of dip hop, particularly grassroots rappers and dip hop groups, perform primarily for Deaf audiences and do not incorporate the use of oral language or bimusical elements.

2021 November 30, Marko Kölbl, Fritz Trümpi, Music and Democracy: Participatory Approaches, transcript Verlag, →ISBN:

Rather than trying to correct deafness with hearing aids or cochlear implants, the Deaf community embraces new forms of communicating and experimenting with artistic practices. Movements such as Dip-Hop, or Deaf Hip-Hop, were born with the idea of a connection between languages[…]

2023 March 31, Iva Nenic, Linda Cimardi, Women's Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies, Alliances, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 89:

(music) a genre and broader subculture combining hip-hop with Deaf culture.


perpetual canon

en-noun

perpetual canon (plural perpetual canons)

(music) A limited type of canon in which three or more voices sing exactly the same melody at the unison (and may continue repeating it indefinitely), but with each voice beginning at different times so that different parts of the melody coincide in the different voices, but nevertheless fit harmoniously together.


duct flute

(music) A flute having a duct or fipple.


shvi

A type of fipple flute from Armenia usually made from wood.


tungso

A type of bamboo flute used in traditional Korean music.


taepyeongso

Borrowed from Korean 태평소(太平簫) (taepyeongso).

bor+

A type of double reed wind instrument from Korea, related to the suona.


puzzle canon

(music) A canon in which only one voice is notated and the rules for determining the remaining parts and the time intervals of their entrances must be guessed.


dungchen

Borrowed from Tibetan དུང་ཆེན (dung chen).

(music) A horn used in Tibetan Buddhist and Mongolian Buddhist ceremonies.