mezzo

Speech parts

1. mezzo - Noun

2. mezzo - Adjective

Meaning

Mean; not extreme.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation. Peter Greenaway

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role. Katherine Jenkins

Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, displays the incipit Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita in a detail of Domenico di Michelino's painting, Florence, 1465. Source: Internet

However, some rapier masters divided the blade into three parts (or even a multiple of three), in which case the central third of the blade, between the forte and the debole, was often called the medio, mezzo or the terzo. Source: Internet

Mezzotint—from the Italian mezzo ("half") and tinta ("tone")—is a "dark manner" form of printmaking, which requires artists to work from dark to light. Source: Internet

There is an intermediate articulation called either mezzo staccato or non-legato. Source: Internet

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