metronome

Tina Tallon, a professor of artificial intelligence and music composition at The Ohio State University, explains that a "click track" features clicks or beeps such as a metronome, or other cues to capture rhythm.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

We have become so accustomed to seeing her twirling her left-arm spin like a metronome, picking up wickets for fun, that it is easy to forget she is still only 27 years old.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

The half-crazed King, magnificently sung by the ever-disruptive Timur, lusts after Salome by speaking and singing at different speeds he selects on a metronome, as he entices her to type for him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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

Blinking and ticking like a cosmic metronome, pulsars keep far better time than the most accurate ordinary clock.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

Three metronomes set at different times rhythmically collide, and in a marvelous stroke the orchestra tick-tocks in its own Einsteinian universe, relativity unwinding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

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