WordNet
n. a time signature indicating four beats to the bar [syn: common time, four-four time, quadruple time]
an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly [syn: common divisor, common factor]
the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad [syn: common meter]
Usage examples of "common measure".
He proposed for the Unit such a fraction of pure silver as would be a common measure of the penny of every state, without leaving a fraction.
Six hundred beds of the common measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house.
In the form in which I repeated it to myself it had not the right number of feet, but as I made no attempt to count them, between its unwieldiness and a classical line of poetry it seemed as though no common measure could exist.
Precision was one of the raptures he allowed himself, the lyncean skill for selection and detail, the Greek gift, but here it was useless, overwhelmed by the powerful rush of things, the raw proximity and lack of common measure.
But he's no less a schlockmeister for all that, and to anyone who believes the radical notion that entertainment should not be absent of intelligence and should have at its core a soul, a passion, and not a happy facepainted on a balloon, and that stories can be told in which the noble and the inspiring are expressed honestly, vigorously, in terms of the common measure of the human spirit, without resorting to the Welch Men's Chorus humming a glorioso passage in the background to cue our tears .
Now it was beginning to seem as if his wife had more than a common measure of fortitude, as well, and would make a worthy adversary.
Feddan----The most common measure of land--a little less than an acre.
A metal is most proper for a common measure, because it can be easily reduced to the same standard.