metronome

See also: Metronome and métronome

English

A metronome.

Etymology

Coined in English from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”) + νόμος (nómos, “regulation, law”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt.ɹəˌnoʊm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt.ɹəˌnəʊm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

metronome (plural metronomes)

1. (music) A device, containing an inverted pendulum, used to mark time by means of regular ticks at adjustable intervals; an electronic equivalent that emits flashes.
   • 2007, Michele Weir, Jazz Piano Handbook, Alfred Music Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:

     The etudes with metronome markings should be played in tempo, all others should be considered rubato.

   • 2017 June 30, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “Ticktock as Taskmaster: A Show About Metronomes and Musical Time”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It’s one of the earliest pieces in the comprehensive collection of metronomes by the British instrument dealer Tony Bingham, which forms the bulk of the Basel exhibition.

Derived terms

• Maelzel's metronome
• metronomic

 

Translations

a device used in music

• Afrikaans: metronoom
• Albanian: metronom
• Arabic: مِيتْرُونُوم m (mītrūnūm), مِسْرَع f (misraʕ)
• Armenian: մետրոնոմ (hy) (metronom)
• Basque: metronomo
• Belarusian: метраном m (mjetranóm)
• Bulgarian: метроном m (metronom)
• Catalan: metrònom (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 節拍器 / 节拍器 (zh) (jiépāiqì), 拍子機 / 拍子机 (pāizijī), 拍節器 / 拍节器 (zh) (pāijiéqì)

• Czech: metronom (cs) m
• Danish: metronom c
• Dutch: metronoom (nl) m
• Esperanto: metronomo
• Estonian: metronoom
• Finnish: metronomi (fi), tahtimittari
• French: métronome (fr) m
• Galician: metrónomo m
• Georgian: მეტრონომი (meṭronomi)
• German: Metronom (de) n
• Greek: μετρονόμος (el) m (metronómos)
• Hebrew: מטרונום (he) m (metronóm)
• Hindi: तालमान m (tālmān)
• Hungarian: ütemmérő (hu), metronóm (hu)
• Ido: metronomo (io)
• Indonesian: metronom (id)
• Irish: méadranóm m
• Italian: metronomo (it) m
• Japanese: メトロノーム (metoronōmu)
• Korean: 메트로놈 (ko) (meteuronom)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: metronom (ku) f

• Latvian: metronoms m
• Lithuanian: metronomas m
• Macedonian: метроном m (metronom)
• Malay: metronom
• Maori: inetaki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metronom m

  Nynorsk: metronom m

• Persian: مترونوم (metronom)
• Polish: metronom (pl) m
• Portuguese: metrônomo (pt) m (Brazil), metrónomo m (Portugal)
• Romanian: metronom (ro) n
• Russian: метроно́м (ru) m (metronóm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: метроном m

  Roman: metronom (sh) m

• Sicilian: mitrònumu m
• Slovak: metronóm m
• Slovene: metronom m
• Spanish: metrónomo m
• Swedish: metronom (sv) c
• Thai: เมโทรนอม (may-tho-ron-om)
• Turkish: metronom (tr)
• Ukrainian: метроно́м m (metronóm)
• Vietnamese: máy nhịp

Anagrams

• monometer, monotreme, nomotreme