metronome
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Noun (1)
- clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of musicType of pendulum
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Met′ro·nome noun
Origin: Gr. … measure + … distribute, assign: cf. F. métronome, It. metronomo.
An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54