Metronome

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Metronome \Met"ro*nome\, n. [Gr. ? measure + ? distribute,
     assign: cf. F. m['e]tronome, It. metronomo.]
     An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding
     weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to
     measure time in music.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  metronome
       n : clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of
           music

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "metronome":
     baton, diapason, monochord, music stand, mute, oscillator,
     pendulum, pitch pipe, rhythmometer, rocker, rocking chair,
     rocking stone, seesaw, shuttle, shuttlecock, sonometer, stick,
     swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetery-bender,
     tone measurer, tuning bar, tuning fork, tuning pipe, vibrator