Choose the noun, rhythm, for the regular pattern of something in a cycle or the beat in a song. In the summer, your life takes on a different rhythm than during the school year.
Rhythm comes from the Greek rhythmos "measured movement, flow." The beat of a song or the meter of a poem is its rhythm. You can also describe the cycle of things that happen in life or nature like the ocean tide or the passing of the seasons as a rhythm. If you have no rhythm, you're not very good at dancing. And once your favorite basketball team has found its rhythm, you know it's going to win.
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an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
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the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
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natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
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