In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.

A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.

The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.

"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhytjhm compensates." The Kybalion.

a continuing process, rising to a climax, leveling off, then falling, ever repeating themselves like the ebb and flow of the tides

a series of attacks (MIDI note-on events) that are played once for a given line, then repeated for the next line

The coordination of movement during the golf swing or putting stroke.

See "timing."

The subdivision of time, principally by establishing length of notes.

a recognisable sequence in time

the proportion of time occupied on the recovery to the time taken on the pull through