Tacet
Definition of Tacet:
part of speech: verb, impersonal
In written music, a term used to indicate when a part is to be silent during a whole movement.
Usage examples:
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A sudden silence, as when the word tacet in an orchestral score hushes to silence bassoons and horns, drums and cymbals, all the instruments that but a moment before were convulsing the air with myriad waves of sound.
Herbert Strang in "Round the World in Seven Days". -
This is the same as, 'Qui tacet negat.
Mór Jókai in "The Golden Age in Transylvania".