Definition of rhythm

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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..

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Rhythmometer :: Rhythmometer (n.) An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.
Dance :: Dance (v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically..
Rhythming :: Rhythming (a.) Writing rhythm; verse making.
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet..
Poetry :: Poetry (n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry..
Numerosity :: Numerosity (n.) Rhythm; harmony; flow.
Lilt :: Lilt (n.) Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness..
Beat :: 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..
Movement :: Movement (n.) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece..
Melody :: Melody (n.) A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression..
Poetical :: Poetical (a.) Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose..
Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
Fontanel :: Fontanel (n.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.
Rhythmer :: Rhythmer (n.) One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter..
Rhythm :: 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..
Tune :: Tune (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air..
Arrhytmy :: Arrhytmy (n.) Want of rhythm.
Immetrical :: Immetrical (a.) Not metrical or rhythmical.
Arhythmic :: Arhythmic (a.) Alt. of Arhythmou.
Rhythmical :: Rhythmical (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm.
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