BEATS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beats mean? 

• BEATS (noun)
  The noun BEATS has 1 sense:

1. a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)

  Familiarity information: BEATS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEATS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

beat generation; beatniks; beats

Hypernyms ("beats" is a kind of...):

youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)

Meronyms (members of "beats"):

beat; beatnik (a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior)

 Context examples 

The number of fetal cardiac beats per minute.

(Fetal Heart Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

A fetal heart monitor finding where there is a change in the beats per minute from one fetal heart beat to the next.

(Fetal Heart Beat to Beat Variability, NCI Thesaurus)

They are irregular in amplitude and frequency and are visually quantitated as the amplitude of the peak to trough in beats per minute.

(Fetal Heart Rate Variability, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormality in the fetal heart rhythm associated with an increase in fetal heart rate above 160 beats per minute.

(Fetal Tachyarrhythmia, NCI Thesaurus)

This results in a P wave or QRS complex that displays merged characteristics of beats originating from the two different sites.

(Fusion Complex, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An abnormality in the fetal heart rhythm associated with a decrease in fetal heart rate below 110 beats per minute.

(Fetal Bradyarrhythmia, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) Resting Pulse Rate: beats/minute.

(COWS - Resting Pulse Rate: Beats/Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by an electrocardiographic finding of an organized, regular atrial rhythm with atrial rate between 101 and 240 beats per minute.

(Atrial Tachycardia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of an organized, regular atrial rhythm with atrial rate between 101 and 240 beats per minute.

(Atrial Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The number of fetal cardiac beats per minute, considered as the reference value against which measurements in the future can be made.

(Baseline Fetal Heart Rate, NCI Thesaurus)