quarter rest

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   a musical rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest

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Questions about quarter rest

What does quarter rest mean?

quarter rest means "a musical rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest".

Is quarter rest a common word?

quarter rest 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.