ad libitum


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ad lib·i·tum

 (ăd lĭb′ĭ-təm)
adj.
1. Music At the discretion of the performer. Used chiefly as a direction giving license to alter or omit a part.
2. Of or relating to a diet in which the amount of food is not restricted.
adv.
1. Music At the discretion of the performer: repeat ad libitum.
2. Without restriction; freely: mice that were fed ad libitum.

[Latin ad, according to + libitum, past participle of libēre, to please.]
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ad libitum

(ˈlɪbɪtʊm; -təm)
adj, adv
(Classical Music) music (to be performed) at the performer's discretion. Often shortened to: ad lib
[see ad-lib]
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ad lib•i•tum

(æd ˈlɪb ɪ təm)
adj., adv.
(used as a musical direction) at one's pleasure; not obligatory or indispensable.
[1695–1705; < Latin]
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ad libitum

at the performer’s discretion
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Adv.1.ad libitum - without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib"
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Translations

ad libitum

adv (Mus) → ad libitum, in freiem Tempo
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References in classic literature ?
The movement was obliged to be in triple time; the rest was ad libitum.
Didn't they steal sips of tea, stuff gingerbread ad libitum, get a hot biscuit apiece, and as a crowning trespass, didn't they each whisk a captivating little tart into their tiny pockets, there to stick and crumble treacherously, teaching them that both human nature and a pastry are frail?
"I am glad it is not yet winter," thought I; "but in two months more come the winds and rains of November; would to God that before then I could earn the right, and the power, to shovel coals into that grate AD LIBITUM!"
We then spoke of the great beauty and importance of Democracy, and were at much trouble in impressing the Count with a due sense of the advantages we enjoyed in living where there was suffrage ad libitum, and no king.
THC, CBN, and CBD OF concentrations decreased over time with no significant differences between placebo and active doses; the results point to the previous ad libitum smoking as the primary source because oral THC minimally affected parent cannabinoid concentrations in OF.
Participants were assigned to either a walnut-enriched ad libitum diet or an ad libitum diet without walnuts.
The participants were divided to two groups - one received walnuts along with ad libitum diet (a diet that allows food intake as much one desires), while the second group received only the ad libitum diet without walnut.
The animals were housed in polypropylene cages (43cm X 29cm X 15cm) with a wire mesh top and a hygienic bed of rice husk under standard laboratory conditions with ad libitum access to water and freshly cooked food (a mixture gm/kg of porridge-630, ground nut cake-100, milk powder-100, black gram 100, salt-10, and fish meal-60).
Significant (P (Less than) 0.05) decreases in the daily weight gain of empty body, cold carcass, liver, empty stomach compartments, empty intestines, internal fats, subcutaneous fat, intermuscular fat, and separable lean were detected when the two feed restriction levels (25 (Percent) and 40 (Percent) were imposed compared to the ad libitum fed group.
One should also recall the delight occasioned when, in one such piece, an ocean becomes a fantastic green, the artisan having replaced the blue thread with another, perhaps more charming ad libitum choice.