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Half rest

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  1. 1
    A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
  2. 2
    a musical rest having the time value of half a whole rest or equal in duration to two beats in common time wordnet
  3. 3
    A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.

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