Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) A whole rest is a pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rest or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beat. 2 (context music English) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly below the line above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
WordNet
n. a musical rest equal in duration to four beats in common time
Usage examples of "whole rest".
The whole rest of the night in that white and glass dinner party in the sky, Tyler kept clearing plates of cold artichokes, then cold veal with cold Pommes Duchesse, then cold Choufleur a la Polonaise from in front of the hostess, and Tyler kept filling her wine glass about a dozen times.
If the following index is not specified the whole rest of the list is assumed.
We have the whole rest of the day to study or read or work on our own spells—.
He went from the tram or the lab down to the big fifty-meter pool, set on a terrace overlooking the ocean, and swam so hard in the mornings that the whole rest of the day he buzzed along in a flow of betaendorphins, scarcely aware of his work problems or the situation at home.
Bingo said it was probably worth four times as much as the whole rest of the load.
Its a bad break for us, Stu, but its good for the whole rest of the human race, and dammit man, they come before us.