, in Music, are the spaces quite through any composition, separated by upright lines drawn across the five horizontal lines, each of which either contains the fame number of notes of the same kind, or so many other notes as will make up a like interval of time; for all the bars, in any piece, must be of the same length, and played in the same time.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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