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double time

  1. ☆ a rate of payment twice as high as usual, as for work on Sundays
  2. a marching cadence of 180 three-foot steps a minute: normal cadence is 120 steps a minute
  3. Music
    1. duple time
    2. twice as fast as the preceding tempo

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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