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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Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
Numerosity :: Numerosity (n.) Rhythm; harmony; flow.
Arrhytmy :: Arrhytmy (n.) Want of rhythm.
Rhythmer :: Rhythmer (n.) One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter..
Tone :: 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..
Music :: Music (n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
Movement :: Movement (n.) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony..
Syncopation :: 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..
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..
Syncope :: Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows..
Accent :: Accent (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period..
Arsis :: Arsis (n.) That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent..
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse..
Measure :: Measure (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure..
Chime :: Chime (v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
Rhythmic :: Rhythmic (a.) Alt. of Rhythmica.
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..
Mastersinger :: Mastersinger (n.) One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
Arhythmous :: Arhythmous (a.) See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous..
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet..
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