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Metra vs Matra - What's the difference?

metra | matra |

As nouns the difference between metra and matra

is that metra is the uterus while matra is a term in Indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.

metra

English

Noun

(metrae)
  • (medicine) The uterus.

    • Anagrams

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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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