Meaning of IMPROVISATION
| Pronunciation: | | im`prâvi'zeyshun
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- [n] a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
- [n] an unplanned expedient
- [n] a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
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| | Synonyms: | | extemporisation, extemporization, temporary expedient |
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| | See Also: | | creation, expedient, performance | |
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| | Definition: | | Improvisation
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| | Definition: | | \Im*prov`i*sa"tion\, n. [Cf. F. improvisation.]
1. The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry,
and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the
organ.
2. That which is improvised; an impromptu.
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| | Related Terms: | | action, ad hoc measure, ad lib, ad-libbing, answer, arrangement, artifice, authorship, beginning, cadenza, coinage, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, countermove, coup, course of action, creation, creative effort, demarche, device, devising, disqualification, dodge, effort, expedient, extemporaneousness, extemporariness, extempore, extemporization, fabrication, flourish, generation, gimmick, hatching, hot lick, impromptu, improvision, incapability, incompetence, interpolation, invention, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, lack of preparation, last expedient, last resort, last shift, lick, makeshift, making do, maneuver, means, measure, mintage, move, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, origination, pis aller, planlessness, playing by ear, pro tempore, resort, resource, riff, shake-up, shift, solution, step, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, tactic, temporary arrangement, temporary expedient, temporary measure, trick, trump, unfitness, unfittedness, unpreparedness, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, vamp, vulnerability, working hypothesis, working proposition |
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