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hemiolas

hemiolas is the plural of hemiola.

Meaning of hemiola

Noun

hemiola (plural hemiolas)

  1. The articulation of two bars in triple time as if they were three bars in duple time.

Questions about hemiolas

What is hemiolas the plural of?
Hemiolas is the plural of hemiola.

Words near hemiolas in the dictionary

  1. hemiobol
  2. hemiobols
  3. hemiodontid
  4. hemiodontids
  5. hemiola
  6. hemiolas
  7. hemiolic
  8. hemione
  9. hemiones
  10. hemionid
  11. hemionids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hemiolas (page history and authors); hemiola (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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