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(an instance, example, of) a regular succession of weak and strong stresses, accents, sounds or movements (in speech, music, movements etc)

beat, accent of sound, music

cadence flow movement pattern pulse swing tempo bounce cadency downbeat lilt measure meter metre periodicity regularity rhyme time uniformity rise and fall
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1) the stress, emphasis, rhythm etc of the voice when reading poetry or prose (cadence)

2) a unit of measurement of length in the metric system; rhythm in poetry formed by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables; meter (metre)

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