What does "metronomic" mean?

Regular, periodic and repetitive, like a metronome.

Metronomic

Common synonyms include: alternate, annalistic, beating, calendarial, calendric, chronogrammatic.

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Adjective

1
Regular, periodic and repetitive, like a metronome.
"Accross^([sic]) the shingle, the metronomic fall of waves overlapped with the call of doves."

"Accross^([sic]) the shingle, the metronomic fall of waves overlapped with the call of doves."

From metronome + -ic.

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