Beat (2000 film)
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- A pulsation or throb.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- A rhythm.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a characters face (often used in screenplays/teleplays).
- The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat.
- In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business, etc.).
- A small part of a dramatic play.
Beat or beats may refer to:
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Common meanings
- Strike (attack), repeatedly striking a person or object
- Beat (police), the territory and time that a police officer patrols
- Gay beat, an area frequented by men who have sex with men for the purpose of casual sex
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Film
- Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
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Music
- Beat (acoustics), volume fluctuations due to interference between sounds of different frequencies
- Beat (music), the basic time unit or pulse in a piece of music representing one moment in time, or a segment of rhythm or cadence
- Beat music, a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s
- Pulse (music), in music and music theory, beats in a (repeating) series of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in time occurring at the mensural level
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Other uses in culture
- Beat (filmmaking), the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play
- Beat Generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
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See also
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