Definitions from Wiktionary (Arsis)

▸ noun:  Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
▸ noun:  (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
▸ noun:  (poetry) The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
▸ noun:  (music) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
▸ noun:  The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.




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