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  1. half rests: Merriam-Webster
  2. half rests: Collins English Dictionary
  3. half rests: Vocabulary.com
  4. half rests: Wiktionary

(Note: See half_rest as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (half rest)

noun:  (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
noun:  (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
▸ Also see half_rest


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