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1a : a single stroke or blow especially in a series; also : pulsation, tick b : a sound produced by or as if by beating c : a driving impact or force
2: one swing of the pendulum or balance of a timepiece
3a : a regularly traversed round
4a : a metrical or rhythmic stress in poetry or music or the rhythmic effect of these stresses b : the tempo indicated (as by a conductor) to a musical performer c : the pronounced rhythm that is the characteristic driving force in some types of music (as jazz or rock); also : 2rock 2
5a : one that excels b : the reporting of a news story ahead of competitors
6: deadbeat
7a : an act of beating to windward b : one of the reaches so traversed : tack
8: each of the pulsations of amplitude produced by the union of sound or radio waves or electric currents having different frequencies
9: an accented stroke (as of one leg or foot against the other) in dancing
10: moment