Usually means: Equal stress on each syllable.
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  1. syllable-timed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. syllable-timed: Wiktionary
  3. syllable-timed: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. syllable-timed: Dictionary.com
  5. Syllable-timed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Syllable-timed: Lexicon of Linguistics

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adjective:  (linguistics, phonetics) Of a language, such that every spoken syllable takes up more or less the same amount of time.

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