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TIME SIGNATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat
Synonyms:
musical time signature; time signature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("time signature" is a kind of...):
musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time signature"):
alla breve (a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure)