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Mactra vs Matra - What's the difference?

mactra | matra |

As a proper noun mactra

is .

As a noun matra is

(music) a term in indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.

mactra

English

(wikipedia mactra) (wikispecies)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any marine bivalve shell of the numerous known species of genus Mactra and allied genera, some of which are used as food, as , of Europe.

    • Synonyms

    * (Webster 1913)

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    matra

    English

    Noun

    (matras)
  • (music) A term in Indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala
  • A term in Indian poetics and linguistics for the measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora
  • The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in the Devanagari script
  • An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts

    • See also

    * laya * tala

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