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Definition of Double time

1. Noun. A fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog.

2. Adverb. At a faster speed. "Now let's play the piece again double-quick"

3. Noun. A doubled wage (for working overtime).

Definition of Double time

1. Noun. (military) A fast marching pace of 180 steps per minute, 36 inches in length for the Marine Corps and Navy, 30 inches in length for the Army. It is not really double the speed of quick time as quick time is 112-120 steps per minute ¹

2. Noun. (music) A musical rhythm twice as fast as the overall beat, with this pattern of note lengths: 3/16 3/16 1/4 3/16 3/16 ¹

3. Noun. (dance) A dance step pattern with six steps ¹

4. Noun. A rate of pay twice that of normal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Time

double stopping double stops double straddle double straddles double switch double tachycardia double take double taker double talk double tap

double taps double team double tertian double tertian malaria double thymidine block double time (current term) double tongue double top double trap double up

double vertical line double vision double whammies double whammy double whole note double whole notes double yellow line double yellow lines doublecheck

Literary usage of Double time

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Presentation of Time in the Elizabethan Drama by Mable Buland (1912)
"Were the Elizabethans aware that they sometimes used a double-time scheme ? This question can be answered only with a high degree of probability. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"... I claim the combination with the lock works, and with a double time-movement that controls the same, of a connection, H, whereby, when the time movement ..."

3. Infantry Tactics, Double and Single Rank, Adapted to American Topography and by Emory Upton (1875)
"To march in double time. 51. Being at a halt, the instructor commands: 1. ... double time, 4. MARCH. To pass from quick time to double time, and the reverse ..."

4. War Emergency Construction (housing War Workers) by United States Housing Corporation (1920)
"Time and one-half was paid for overtime excepting from 12 o'clock midnight to 7.30 am and for Sundays and holidays,- when double time prevailed. ..."

5. Tactics by William Balck (1915)
"In general, double time is considered of little value. In Austria double time is to be maintained for periods of two minutes, quick time of five minutes ..."

6. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1891)
"If marching in double time or in quick time and the command be double time, the first company marches in quick time; the other companies march in double ..."

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