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metronome

[me-truh-nohm] / ˈmɛ trəˌnoʊm /
NOUN
chronometer
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Trade the metronome as it swings back and forth, but don’t let the hypnotic sound lull you into complacency.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

"We're now starting to understand how the uterus acts as both a muscle and a metronome to ensure that labor follows the body's own rhythm."

From Science Daily Jan. 13, 2026

These are the bluebloods, the old money of the investment world, steady as a metronome and just as thrilling.

From MarketWatch Oct. 9, 2025

Goalkeeper Ederson, 31, is not the guarantee of reliability he once was while gifted midfield metronome Bernardo Silva is not the influence of old as he reaches 30.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2025

Matthew picked up the entire can, turned it upside down and drained the juice violently, his adam’s apple straining and pulsing like a metronome.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The night sky contains remarkably precise "cosmic clocks": pulsars, which are dense neutron stars that emit radio pulses at steady intervals, ticking like perfectly timed metronomes.

From Science Daily Oct. 15, 2025

Subsequent studies showed that a dog’s drooling response could be triggered by a range of unrelated stimuli, from metronomes to electric shocks.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

After a few stressful spring weeks, they now operate more like metronomes.

From Washington Post Jun. 30, 2022

As such inherent metronomes, time crystals may be a great future asset to precision timekeeping or quantum information processing.

From Scientific American Mar. 9, 2022

In its crudest form, this exploitation of 'phasing’ could be demonstrated by setting off two pendulum metronomes at exactly the same time and precisely the same speed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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