Accordion

• The hybrid offspring of an organ and a pair of bellows, sounding like a harmonica with a pituitary problem; the happy scourge of ethnic weddings.
• Two or more parallel folds which open like an accordion. Against the grain - At 90 degrees to the paper grain direction.
• A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
• In a graphical user interface, an accordion is an expanded view (by window or thumbnail) of a selected item inside of a list of items. The term stems from the musical accordion in which sections of the bellows can be expanded by pulling outward.
• Accordion is a solitaire game using one deck of playing cards. The object is to compress the entire deck into one pile like an accordion.
• A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.