In music notation, this indicates a gradual slowing of the tempo of the music. It is often abbreviated "rall." The word simply means "slowing down" in Italian.
Ral"len*tan"do (?), a. [It.] Mus.
Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
© Webster 1913.
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