From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtempotem‧po /ˈtempəʊ $ -poʊ/ noun (plural tempos) [countable] 1 APMthe speed at which music is played or should be played2 SPEEDthe speed at which something happens the easy tempo of island life
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tempo• The quietness of the house, to which she stood listening, was a new quietness with an alien tempo.• His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling.• From the start, Dallas controlled the tempo of the game.• What, then, I wondered, controls the tempo of life in the deep sea?• The tempo of operations was fast, impressive.• The tempo of the chase increases.Origin tempo (1600-1700) Italian “time”, from Latin tempus 