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Pronunciation: [mˈɛtɹənˌə͡ʊm] (IPA)

A metronome is a device that produces a steady beat to help musicians maintain a consistent tempo while playing music. However, there are several alternative synonyms for this word including the beat keeper, timekeeper, tempo meter, and rhythm master. These terms all refer to the same device or concept of keeping time in music. While the concept of a metronome remains consistent across all of these terms, each word highlights different aspects of the device's functionality or purpose. Using any of these terms while discussing the metronome will help communicate more clearly and accurately, especially when discussing music techniques and practices.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Metronome?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

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Usage examples for Metronome

The second record, called the metronome Hypnotic Record, incorporates the monotonous and lulling beat of an electric metronome in the background.
"A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis"
Melvin Powers
In the centre, an ancient clock whose tick acts as the metronome for the sound of their high voices.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
He swayed grandly, generously, for'ard and aft, like a metronome set at a large, sweeping rhythm.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

Famous quotes with Metronome

  • Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
    Yoko Ono
  • So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
    Ruggiero Ricci
  • I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
    Brian Setzer
  • Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered throughout the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied; did real time plus virtual or mirror-time equal zero and thus serve some half-understood moral purpose? Or was it only the mirror world that counted; only a promise of a kind that the inward bow of a nose-bridge or a promontory of extra cartilage at the chin meant a reversal of ill fortune such that the world of the altered would thenceforth run on mirror-time; work and love by mirror-light and be only, till death stopped the heart's ticking (metronome's music) quietly as light ceases to vibrate, an imp's dance under the century's own chandeliers....
    Thomas Pynchon
  • Rick Astley? Have you seen this banal incubus at work? Boy, if this guy isn't heralding Satan's imminent approach to Earth, huh. "Don't ever wanna make you cry, never wanna make you sigh … never gonna break your heart" … oh, I wouldn't worry about that without a dick, buddy. You got a corn nut! You got a clit! You're not even a guy! You're an AIDS germ that got off a slide! They're puttin' music to AIDS germs, they're puttin' a drum machine behind them in a metronome beat and Ted Turner's colorizing 'em, God damn it! These aren't even people man! It's a CIA plot to make you think malls are good!! Don't ya see? (Imitates stereotypical American in a robotic manner) "But Bill, malls are good! Malls allow us to shop 365 days of the year at a 72 degree heat. That must be good."
    Bill Hicks

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