1. staccato - Noun
2. staccato - Adjective
3. staccato - Adverb
Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none. Holly Hunter
That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities. Ben van Berkel
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou. Charles Baudelaire
staccato applause Source: Internet
a staccato command Source: Internet
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