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Matra vs Macra - What's the difference?

matra | macra |

As nouns the difference between matra and macra

is that matra is (music) a term in indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala while macra is .

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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    macra

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 1986 : Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell, Reading Latin: Grammar, vocabulary and exercises'', Introduction — ''General notes (note 1), page 2 (22nd printing (2007); Cambridge University Press; ISBN 9780521286220)
    • All vowels are pronounced short'' unless marked with a ¯ (macron) over them. So observe different vowel length of ‘''i''’ in, e.g., ''f?lia , etc. It may be helpful, but is not essential, to mark macra in your exercises.

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