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measure, in music, a metrical unit having a given number of beats, the first of which normally is accented, although the accent may be displaced by syncopation. Measures are separated on the staff by vertical lines called bars. The term bar has become synonymous with measure. The consistent division of music into measures with regularly recurring accent did not become prevalent until the 17th cent. See also meter meter, in music, the division of a composition into units of equal time value called measures, and the subdivision of those measures into an underlying pattern of stresses or accents (see measure ). ..... Click the link for more information. and rhythm rhythm, the basic temporal element of music, concerned with duration and with stresses or accents whether irregular or organized into regular patternings. The formulation in the late 12th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. .
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| Michelson's interferometer is a device that can be used to measure length or change in length with great accuracy, by means of interference fringes. The English and the metric system are two different systems used to measure length, area, and solids. We pull the 5th, 8th and 11th ear from one row, measure length of grain, count the number of kernel rows and record the averages. |
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