An indication of the meter of a musical composition, usually presented in the form of a fraction; the lower number indicates the unit of measurement, and the upper number indicates the number of units that make up a measure.
the indication of the basic rhythm of a bar within a piece. It looks like an arithmetic fraction: The upper number indicates the number of beats to a bar, and the lower number indicates how the beats should be measured.
An indicator of the meter of a musical work, usually presented in the form of a fraction, the denominator of which indicates the unit of measurement and the numerator of which indicates the number of units that make up a measure.
A symbol placed at the beginning of a composition to indicate the meter of the piece. Meter signatures usually consist of two numbers, the lower indicating the note of value, and the upper the number of these notes per measure.
The numbers placed at the beginning of a composition to indicate the meter of the music, e.g. . The upper number indicates the beats in a measure; the lower number tells what kind of a note will receive one beat.