breve

breve
noun
  1. (Music)a note, rarely used in modern music, having the time value of two semibreves, and represented as a semibreve with two short bars either side, or as a square
    (乐)二全音符
  2. a written or printed mark (ˇ) indicating a short of unstressed vowel
    短音符号(ˇ)
  3. (historical)an authoritative letter from a pope or monarch
    (史)(教皇或君主的)谕令,上谕
语源
  1. Middle English : variant of briefIn the musical sense, the term was originally used in a series where a long was of greater time value than a breve
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