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compound meter

Music any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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