Word Meanings - TIMESIGNATURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.

• Measure
  A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
• Numbers
  pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• Placeful
  In the appointed place.
• Placer
  One who places or sets.
• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• Placoganoid
  Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Measured
  of Measure
• Numerator
  One who numbers.
• Placeless
  Having no place or office.
• Placet
  A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• Placoganoidei
  A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• AFTERDINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher

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