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Music

triple time; triple meter; triple metre; three-four time

three important requisites

to clap one's hands in prayer

clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine)

Archaic

dancing girl (end of the Heian period)

prostitute

tempo in gagaku

to meet all three important conditions; to be a triple threat; to be ideal

beating time with one's foot

Shinto

two bows, two claps, and a third bow (common form of worshipping at a shrine)

Music

quadruple time; four-four time; common time

Music

the four instruments in the accompanying orchestra in noh, etc. (flute, floor drum, small hand drum, large hand drum)

three-three-seven rhythmic clapping pattern; 3-3-7 beat

Music

duple time; duple meter; duple metre; two-four time

Music

irregular time; irregular metre

counting time orally

heart rate monitor; cardiometer watch

percussion instrument made of small pieces wood strung together

Shinto

two bows, two claps, and a third bow (common form of worshipping at a shrine)

Medicine

cardiac output

wooden rods (square, used in a pair) used in Kansai-area rakugo (e.g. to mark scene changes); small clapper

Music

downbeat; accented beat

Music

upbeat; unaccented beat

clapper (two long pieces of wood that are clapped together; used in gagaku, etc.)

keeping time by tapping one's knees

Medicine

cardiography

Music

upbeat; syncopated beat

Medicine; Anatomy

apex beat; apex pulse; point of maximum impulse