diapasons in English
noun
1
an organ stop sounding a main register of flue pipes, typically of eight-foot pitch.
Etherington adopts an apt change in registration, giving vent to the diapasons that would have been the lynchpin of organs in Handel's own time.
2
a grand swelling burst of harmony.
For 45 minutes he spoke, sometimes allowing his voice to swell in a sonorous diapason , sometimes letting it sink low as he leaned forward confidentially over the desk.
3
the entire compass, range, or scope of something.
The entire diapason of pro-war liberal opinion-formers has indulged in this revolting ad hominem habit, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.
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1. Archlute, large 16th-century bass lute provided with additional bass strings, or diapasons, and producing a deeper sound that could be used in orchestral basso continuo parts