Common time Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a time signature indicating four beats to the bar
    quadruple time; common measure; four-four time.

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Definitions
  1. (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions.
Definitions
  1. (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute.

Webster 1913