Mezzo is the Italian word for "half", "middle" or "medium". It may refer to:

Music

Mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...

or mezzo, a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices *Mezzo forte ("medium-loud") and mezzo piano ("medium-quiet"), musical terms for dynamics *

Mezzo staccato Portato (; Italian past participle of ''portare'', "to carry"), also mezzo-staccato, French notes portées, in music denotes a smooth, pulsing articulation and is often notated by adding dots under slur markings. Portato is also known as ar ...

, an articulation halfway between legato and staccato

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* Mezzo (artist) (born 1960), a French cartoonist * Mezzo Buttress, a glacier in Antarctica *'' Mezzo DSA'', a 2003 anime series, the sequel to the ''Mezzo Forte'' anime movie *''

Mezzo Forte is a 2000 original video animation (OVA) directed by Yasuomi Umetsu. In the United States these OVAs were edited into an anime movie that was released on DVD in the same year. The OVA, which concerns a young woman, Mikura Suzuki, and her me ...

'', an anime movie *

Mezzo Mix Mezzo Mix (stylised mezzo mix) is a product of The Coca-Cola Company, first introduced in West Germany in 1973. It is a mixture of orange soda and cola, a beverage popular in German-speaking countries, commonly known there as spezi, the generi ...

, a beverage sold by Coca-Cola in Germany, Finland and Austria *

Mezzo TV Mezzo is a French television channel, broadcasting classical music (including opera and ballet), jazz and world music. It was formed in 1992 and was called France Supervision until 1998. In 2010 it added a sister channel, Mezzo Live HD. In Ja ...

, a television channel in France *Mezzo, a common name in the 19th century for the island of

Lopud Lopud () is a small island off the coast of Dalmatia, southern Croatia. Lopud is economically the most developed of the Elaphiti Islands, and can be reached by boat from Dubrovnik, Trsteno, Orašac and Zaton. The island is famous for its san ...

, Croatia

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