duple time

1. 1.

   musical time with two beats in each bar

   Broadermusical time

Questions about duple time

What does duple time mean?

duple time means "musical time with two beats in each bar".

Is duple time a common word?

duple time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.