Meaning of Tatum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A habitational surname from Old English.
2. The shortest statistically significant time interval between successive notes in a rhythmic phrase or a musical piece.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
4. A female given name transferred from the surname.
5. A village in Cameroon.
6. A town in New Mexico.
7. A town in South Carolina.
8. A city in Panola County and Rusk County, Texas, named after settlers Albert and Mary Tatum.

Examples

“He had done so much to take his game to the next level, but it didn’t seem to matter. Jayson Tatum just couldn’t hit a shot.”

“By the time a letter from Marcy finally came, explaining that the entire time she had been living on the South Side in a Negro neighborhood near the university, and that she had a son whom she'd named Tatum Kubiac—"Tatum" after a famous jazz pianist—it seemed to make little difference.”

“The youngest ever Oscar-winner is an actress called Tatum O'Neal, who was ten when she won Best Supporting Act for the film Paper Moon (1973).”

“In general, the music meter contains a nested grouping of pulses called metrical levels, where pulses on higher levels are subsets of the lower level pulses; the most salient level is known as the beat, and the lowest level is termed the tatum.”

“A tatum represents the lowest regular pulse train that a listener intuitively infers from the timing of perceived musical events (segments).”

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