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Topic: MUSIC

Date: 1600-1700
Language: Italian
Origin: 'time', from Latin tempus

tempo

 noun
     
tem‧po plural tempos [countable]
1APM the speed at which music is played or should be played
2 the speed at which something happens:
the easy tempo of island life
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