| cadence | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse. |
| ~ metrics, prosody | the study of poetic meter and the art of versification. |
| ~ poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody | (prosody) a system of versification. |
| ~ catalexis | the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse. |
| ~ scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns. |
| ~ common meter, common measure | the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad. |
| ~ metrical foot, metrical unit, foot | (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm. |
| n. (communication) | 2. cadence | the close of a musical section. |
| ~ musical passage, passage | a short section of a musical composition. |
| ~ amen cadence, plagal cadence | a cadence (frequently ending church music) in which the chord of the subdominant precedes the chord of the tonic. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. cadence, cadency | a recurrent rhythmical series. |
| ~ rhythmicity | the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music. |
| rhythm | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. beat, musical rhythm, rhythm | the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music.; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" |
| ~ backbeat | a loud steady beat. |
| ~ downbeat | the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward). |
| ~ offbeat, upbeat | an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure). |
| ~ syncopation | a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat. |
| ~ musical time | (music) the beat of musical rhythm. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. regular recurrence, rhythm | recurring at regular intervals. |
| ~ cyclicity, periodicity | the quality of recurring at regular intervals. |
| ~ cardiac rhythm, heart rhythm | the rhythm of a beating heart. |
| n. (time) | 3. cycle, rhythm, round | an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.; "the never-ending cycle of the seasons" |
| ~ interval, time interval | a definite length of time marked off by two instants. |
| ~ phase angle, phase | a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle. |
| n. (communication) | 4. rhythm, speech rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements.; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry" |
| ~ template, templet, guide | a model or standard for making comparisons. |
| ~ prosody, inflection | the patterns of stress and intonation in a language. |
| n. (act) | 5. calendar method, calendar method of birth control, rhythm, rhythm method, rhythm method of birth control | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle). |
| ~ natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle. |
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