forte
- Noun. A strength or talent.
- Noun. The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
- Noun. A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
- Adjective. (music) Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, {f.}, to indicate raising the volume of the music. (abbreviated in musical notation with an f, unicode character 1D191).
- Adverb. (music) loudly.
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