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tempi
[tem-pee] 
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tempo
[tem-poh]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, rhythm |
| Synonyms: | bounce, cadence, downbeat, measure, meter, momentum, pace, pulse, rate, speed, time, velocity |
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| Main Entry: | measure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, rhythm |
| Synonyms: | accent, cadence, cadency, division, melody, meter, rhyme, step, stress, stroke, swing, tempo, throb, time, tune, verse, vibration |
| Main Entry: | rate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speed, pace |
| Synonyms: | clip, dash, flow, gait, gallop, hop, measure, motion, movement, pace, spurt, tempo, time, tread, velocity |
| Main Entry: | rhythm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, accent of sound, music |
| Synonyms: | bounce, cadence, cadency, downbeat, flow, lilt, measure, meter, metre, movement, pattern, periodicity, pulse, regularity, rhyme, rise and fall, swing, tempo, time, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | swing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving back and forth |
| Synonyms: | beat, cadence, cadency, fluctuation, lilt, measure, meter, motion, oscillation, rhythm, stroke, sway, swaying, tempo, undulation, vibration |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, chronology, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, hour, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, lastingness, life, life span, lifetime, many a moon, moment, month, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, week, while, year |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | velocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speed |
| Synonyms: | acceleration, celerity, dispatch, expedition, fleetness, gait, haste, headway, hurry, impetus, momentum, pace, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rate, swiftness, tempo |
| Notes: | speed is the distance an object travels during a unit of time; velocity is the distance an object travels in a specified direction during a unit of time |
| Main Entry: | cadency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rhythm |
| Synonyms: | beat, cadence, measure, meter, pulse, tempo |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | measure |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
comparative, geodetical, gradual, inch, measuring, metric, metrical, poisable, scalar, shading off, sidereal, unmeasured
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