breve
noun
Simple meaning
A diacritical mark placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound.
Pronunciation
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breevIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈbɹiv
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
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noun
orthographyprinting
A diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
orthographyprinting
A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
music
A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.
An equal mix of espresso and half and half cream.
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A musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure.
Several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach.
A bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions.
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