breve : Idioms & Phrases

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alla breve

  • noun a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure
WordNet
Al`la bre"ve
Etymology
It., according to the breve.
Definitions
  1. (Old Church Music) With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by .
Webster 1913

arteria gastrica breves

  • noun several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach
    vasa brevis; short gastric artery.
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os breve

  • noun a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions
    short bone.
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