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# metronome

«metronome» in Mova's school dictionary: **a device that ticks or clicks at a steady speed to help…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a metronome, metronomes)

### meaning for a pupil

A metronome is a device that ticks or clicks at a steady speed to help musicians keep time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metronome/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Met in music lessons; also used to describe something very regular («ticking like a metronome»).

### examples

- My piano teacher sets the metronome to 80 beats a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metronome/#x1)
- The metronome clicked steadily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metronome/#x2)
- Practise with a metronome to keep a steady beat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metronome/#x3)
- The old metronome has a swinging arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metronome/#x4)
- There is a metronome app on my phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metronome/#x5)
- His running steps were as regular as a metronome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metronome/#x6)

### note

Plural: metronomes. Its speed is measured in beats per minute (bpm). In a maths problem, at 60 bpm the metronome clicks once each second.

### In the corpora

- [A metronome is a ticking machine or app that keeps a steady beat; groups often rush when they get excited.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «metronome» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metronome/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.