Beat
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Beat (acoustics): An interference between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as periodic variations in volume whose rate is the difference between the two frequencies. [e]
- Beat (music): The basic time unit of music, the pulse of the mensural level, also known as the beat level. [e]
- Beat generation: A term used to describe a group of social writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired. [e]
