time signature
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time signature

noun

Definition of TIME SIGNATURE

: a sign used in music to indicate meter and usually written as a fraction with the bottom number indicating the kind of note used as a unit of time and the top number indicating the number of units in each measure

First Known Use of TIME SIGNATURE

1875

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