Definition of "mezzo" []

• A mezzo-soprano. (noun)

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• "JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, Fred, right now, that same area that you were just talking about, the NOAA storm prediction center here has just issued what we call a mezzo scale discussion."
• "And now we just got what we call a mezzo scale discussion from the storm prediction center."
• "The mezzo was the New Zealander Wendy Dawn Thompson, with whom I once briefly corresponded in before-she-was-famous days."