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From
counter-
+
beat
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counterbeat
(
plural
counterbeats
)
A
beat
that runs counter to another.
2009
March 20, Holland Cotter, “Cutting Modernism’s Big Cube Down to Size”, in
New York Times
[1]
:
At the same time there’s a
counterbeat
of tension.
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