metronome
noun
a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
metronomes
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pluralof metronome.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The night sky contains remarkably precise "cosmic clocks": pulsars, which are dense neutron stars that emit radio pulses at steady intervals, ticking like perfectly timed metronomes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
After a few stressful spring weeks, they now operate more like metronomes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2022
As such inherent metronomes, time crystals may be a great future asset to precision timekeeping or quantum information processing.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 9, 2022
Then there were the ear trumpets he used, hornlike metal devices that were created for him to stick in his ears by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, an inventor who also made his metronomes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
In its crudest form, this exploitation of 'phasing’ could be demonstrated by setting off two pendulum metronomes at exactly the same time and precisely the same speed.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
