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      [Noun]  | "time signature" 


      1: a sign used in music to indicate meter and usually written as a fraction with the bottom number indicating the kind of note used as a unit of time and the top number indicating the number of units in each measure


      Origin: 1841 ;

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       [ "revolving time signature" ]

      1: n.

        * e.g.,  ... The revolving time signature at the end of the song gave me motion sickness. 


       [ "revolving time signature" ]

      2:  A phrase of music notated in a particular meter, but accented as though it were written in another. When played against the backdrop of the initial time signature, the "revolving" time signature feels as though it is moving around the other one.


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      3:  Another term for hemiola

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