Beat (disambiguation)

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•  Beat (acoustics): An interference between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as periodic variations in volume whose rate is the difference between the two frequencies. ^[e]
•  Beat (music): The basic time unit of music, the pulse of the mensural level, also known as the beat level. ^[e]
•  Beat generation: A term used to describe a group of social writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired. Gave rise to the term "beatnik". ^[e]