Beat
- Beating is striking more than once, in violence, beating a drum, etc. This is the original meaning of the word.
- Beating can mean to defeat someone in any sort of contest, or to get to something before someone else.
- In physics and sound, a beat is the oscillation between zero intensity and full intensity that occurs when two frequencies (which are not harmonically related) are added together, caused by alternating constructive and destructive interference of the pressure waves.
- In sailing, "beating" refers to maneuvers in order to sail against the wind direction.
- In music:-
- beat in music is a pulse of sound that marks the rhythm.
- Beat is also then the meter, rhythm, riddim, or groove of a piece and may indicate solely the bass and snare drum rhythm parts. DJs often beatmatch, or align the tempos, the songs that they play.
- Interference beats are used in tuning, see tuning and physics above.
- musical genre: Beat is a style played in the 1960s.
- The Beat, known in the US as The English Beat, was a UK ska band of the early 1980s.
- Beat is an album by the 1980s incarnation of progressive rock group King Crimson.
- In literature beat is a genre of literature written by beatniks. See beat generation.
- In poetry, beat is sometimes used to refer to metrical feet. There is also beat poetry; see beat generation.
- In theater, a beat can refer to a short pause inserted into an actor's delivery; Harold Pinter is known for explicitly scripting these beats and pauses into his plays.
- police: Beat is the territory and time that a police officer patrols.
- a .beat is the unit of the Swatch Internet Time.
- In Sport and Fencing a beat is a preparation of an attack where the attacker strikes the middle of their opponents blade with the middle of their blade and thereby knocking it out of the way and then allowing them to strike their opponent.
- Do not confuse with words taken from Latin and derived from Latin be?tus = "blessed".
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