forte

  1. Noun.  A strength or talent.
  2. Noun.  The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
  3. Noun.  A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
  4. 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).
  5. Adverb.  (music) loudly.

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