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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