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BAR LINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bar line mean?
• BAR LINE (noun)
The noun BAR LINE has 1 sense:
1. a vertical line before the accented beat marking the boundary between musical bars
Familiarity information: BAR LINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vertical line before the accented beat marking the boundary between musical bars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bar line" is a kind of...):
line (a mark that is long relative to its width)
musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bar line"):
double bar (notation marking the end of principal parts of a musical composition; two adjacent bar lines)
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