noun
1. a time signature indicating four beats to the bar
• Syn: ↑common time, ↑four-four time, ↑quadruple time
• Hypernyms: ↑musical time
2. an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly
• Syn: ↑common divisor, ↑common factor
• Hyponyms: ↑greatest common divisor, ↑greatest common factor, ↑highest common factor
3. the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad
• Syn: ↑common meter
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noun1. : common time
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1. See common time.
2. Also called common meter, hymnal stanza. Pros. a ballad stanza of four iambic lines and strict rhymes, often used in hymns, rhyming abcb or abab.
[1710-20]
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common measure noun
1. A quantity that is a measure of several quantities (mathematics)
2. Common time (music)
3. The usual form of a ballad stanza, a quatrain containing alternating four-stress and three-stress lines
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Main Entry: ↑common
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common measure,
= common time. (Cf. ↑common time)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.