About The Word Improvisation

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Improvisation

Improvisation Meaning & Definition
Improvisation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Improvisation?

[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)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Improvisation: extemporisation | extemporization | temporary expedient

Related Terms | Find terms related to Improvisation: 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

See Also | creation | expedient | performance

Improvisation In Webster's Dictionary

\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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