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• s  (of tempo) as fast as possible
• r  extremely fast; as fast as possible
  this passage should be played prestissimo

• In The Life and Death of Classical Music the smart, crusty, blustery critic Norman Lebrecht frog-marches readers, prestissimo, through the glory days of Toscanini and Glenn Gould .
• In high school, young McArthur played the typewriter; his virtuoso prestissimo won him the Colorado championship.
• The two contestants were milling gloriously on the stage, while the orchestra milled away at its violins and double-basses, prestissimo furioso.