rhythm
Other forms: rhythms
Use the noun rhythm to refer to 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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recurrence at regular intervalssynonyms: regular recurrencetypes:atrioventricular nodal rhythm, nodal rhythmthe normal cardiac rhythm when the heart is controlled by the atrioventricular nodetype of:
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the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music“the piece has a fast rhythm”synonyms: beat, musical rhythmtypes:backbeata loud steady beatdownbeatthe first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward)syncopationa musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beattype of:musical time(music) the beat of musical rhythm
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the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
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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)synonyms: calendar method, calendar method of birth control, rhythm method, rhythm method of birth controltype of:natural family planningany of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle
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