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A repeated small variation in pitch used to give a sustained musical tone a vibrating quality.
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- vocal vibrato
- narrow vibrato
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Her vocal vibrato widened as the phrase rose.
A narrow vibrato colored the violin's sustained note.
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Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Usually mass noun; plural vibratos for distinct types or instances. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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