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A tempo is defined as the music direction which means to return to the original pace of a song.

(adverb)

An example of a tempo is when the music returns to the slow pace experienced at the beginning of the song.

See a tempo in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Musical Direction in time: a note to the performer to return to the preceding tempo

Origin: It

See a tempo in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adverb & adj.
Music

In the tempo originally designated; resuming the initial tempo of a section or movement after a specified deviation from it. Used chiefly as a direction.

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Origin: Italian

Origin: : a, in

Origin: + tempo, time

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