quadruple time

1. 1.

   a time signature indicating four beats to the bar

   Synonymscommon timefour-four timecommon measure

   Broadermusical time

Questions about quadruple time

What does quadruple time mean?

quadruple time means "a time signature indicating four beats to the bar".

What is another word for quadruple time?

Close synonyms include common time, four-four time, common measure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quadruple time a common word?

quadruple 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.