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coda definition

coda (kō′də)

noun

  1. Music a more or less independent passage added to the end of a section or composition so as to reinforce the sense of conclusion
  2. something coming after or at the end

Etymology: It < L cauda, a tail

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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