arpeggio

Meanings

1. The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest.

1. To play (a chord) as an arpeggio; to play (a piece of music) with arpeggios.
2. To produce arpeggios; to produce sounds resembling arpeggios.
3. To move (the hand or fingers) against a surface as if playing arpeggios on a keyboard; to touch different points in succession along a surface.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian arpeggio, from arpeggiare (“to play a harp”).