BAR LINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vertical line before the accented beat marking the boundary between musical bars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bar line" is a kind of...):

line (a mark that is long relative to its width)

musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bar line"):

double bar (notation marking the end of principal parts of a musical composition; two adjacent bar lines)

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