the rhythmic flow and intonations of speech
a fall in the pitch of the voice, e.g. at the end of a sentence
the rhythm of poetry or prose
in music, a sequence of chords moving to a harmonic close or point of rest and giving the sense of harmonic completion
the beat, time, or measure of a rhythmical motion or activity, e.g. rowing or marching
the rhythmic recurrence of a sound
cadenced adj
cadential /kayʹdensh(ə)l/ adj
[Middle English via Old Italian from Latin cadere to fall]