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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC |
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BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere) , a blow or stroke; from the many applications of the verb " to beat " come various meanings of the substantive, in some of which the primary sense has become obscure. It is applied to tile throbbing of the pulse
retreat , or charge, or to quarters; in music to the alternating sound
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movement
baton by which a conductor of an orchestra or chorus indicates the time, and to the divisions of a bar. As a nautical term
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