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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb From the place marked by the sign § to a designated point. Used as a direction to repeat a passage.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, a direction to go back to the sign , and repeat thence to the close, or to a point indicated by the word fine. Abbreviated D. S.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Mus.) A direction to go back to the sign � and repeat from thence to the close. See segno.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb music From the last segno.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian : da, from + il, the + segno, sign.]

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Italian

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