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Metronome

an instrument for beating and dividing the time in music; a musical time keeper. It has a small pendulum which, being set in motion by clock-work, beats audibly a certain number of times in a minute; and this numweight so as to give it the speed reber may be altered by moving a sliding quired. To be correct, the metronome should beat seconds when set at 60.

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