单词 | common measure |
释义 | common measuren. 1. Mathematics. A number or quantity that is a factor of each of two or more given numbers or quantities; = common factor n. 1. Also figurative and in extended use: something shared by two or more things. Cf. greatest common measure n. ΚΠ 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. *ij In pure Arithmetike, an Vnit, is the common Measure of all Numbers. 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Asymmetral Two Quantities are said to be Asymmetral, when there is no common Measure between them. 1834 D. Lardner Treat. Arithm., Pract. & Theoret. ii. i. 154 2 numbers are said to be relatively prime, or prime to each other, when they have no common measure greater than the unit. 1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent i. iv. 80 The establishment of a common measure between mind and mind. 1962 C. Smith tr. M. Merleau-Ponty Phenomenol.of Perception 50 The placing of spirit in an axiological dimension having no common measure with nature. 2015 J. P. Burgess Rigor & Struct. i. 35 A ratio of two line segments AB and AC could be equated with a ratio of numbers provided a common measure could be found, a segment AD such that some whole number m of copies would exactly fill up AB while some (other) whole number n of copies of it would exactly fill up AC. 2. Music. Time or rhythm consisting of two or four beats in a bar; esp. 4/4 time, having four crotchets in a bar; = common time n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke i. 55 Then commeth the common measure, or the lesse prolation (the signe of Subquintupla..destroying the proportion). 1762 W. Riley Parochial Music Corrected 15 The Tune may be sung to any other Psalms in common Measure, provided they consist of Praise and Thanksgiving. 1854 G. W. Röhner Pract. Treat. on Musical Composition 16 It will be known to the mere practical student that there are two Measures in music—Common and Triple... Common Measure has two principal accents. 1934 K. W. Gehrkens Music in Grade Schools xiii. 127 The meaning of the common measure signatures. 2005 Stud. Pop. Culture 28 8 This structure roughly resembles the common measure used in church hymns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1570 |
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