time signature

See also: time-signature

English

Noun

time signature (plural time signatures)

1. (music) A symbol or numerical sign placed on a stave to indicate the meter; in the case of a numerical time signature, the numerator is the number of beats per bar, the denominator represents the value of each beat

Translations

numerical sign

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拍號／拍号 (zh) (pāihào)

• Dutch: maatsoort (nl)
• Esperanto: taktindiko
• Finnish: tahtilaji (fi)
• French: chiffrage de mesure m
• German: Taktangabe f
• Hungarian: ütemmutató, (less commonly) ütemjelzés (hu), (rarely) ütemjelző
• Korean: 박자표(拍子標) (ko) (bakjapyo)
• Norwegian: taktartsangivelse sg
• Persian: کسر میزان (kasr-e mizân)
• Portuguese: fórmula de compasso (pt) f
• Romanian: metru (ro) n, metru muzical n
• Russian: разме́р (ru) m inan (razmér)
• Scottish Gaelic: tìde-àidhre
• Spanish: quebrado de compás m, cifra de compás f
• Swedish: tempobeteckning c, taktbeteckning c
• Welsh: arwydd amser