Accordion

Quick meaning: Accordion is a noun meaning (graphical user interface) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.

Meaning

(graphical user interface) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
2. A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
3. (figurative or attributive) Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows.

Example Sentences

See also: telescoping

A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.

"Accordion" skirts are named from the musical instrument of that title, because the peculiar plaiting draws out and falls together again, in the same kind of folds, and with the same effect.

[…] lugging their accordion cameras and bulky tripods from platform to hillock to ladder—even to the rooftop of a moving supply train—seeking to claim the most advantageous site for recording tomorrow's event.

Word Forms

• accordions
• accordeon
• accordioning
• accordioned

Synonyms for accordion

Depending on context, synonyms include plicate, folded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plicate, folded, squeezebox, accordian, concertina, armonica.

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