Imperfect cadence [half cadence; half close; semi-cadence]

(Fr. cadence suspendue; Ger. Halbschluss; It. cadenza sospesa).

A Cadence which comes to rest on the dominant; in some American writings, a cadence ending on the tonic in which the penultimate chord is in inversion, or in which the uppermost voice does not sound the tonic in the final chord.