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- Rhythm - n. - In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.
- Rhythm - n. - Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
- Rhythm - n. - A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.
- Rhythm - n. - The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
- Rhythmer - n. - One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter.
- Rhythmic - a. - Alt. of Rhythmical
- Rhythmical - a. - Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm
- Rhythmically - adv. - In a rhythmical manner.
- Rhythmics - n. - The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.
- Rhythming - a. - Writing rhythm; verse making.
- Rhythmless - a. - Being without rhythm.
- Rhythmometer - n. - An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.
- Rhythmus - n. - Rhythm.
- Sphygmophone - n. - An electrical instrument for determining by the ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.
- Rhythmer - n. - One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter.
- Beat - n. - The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
- Tone - n. - A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
- Syncopate - v. t. - To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.
- Arrhythmous - a. - Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.