Usually means: Two beats in common time.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word half note:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. half note: Merriam-Webster
  2. half note: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half note: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. half-note, half-note: Collins English Dictionary
  5. half note: Vocabulary.com
  6. half-note, half note: Wordnik
  7. half note: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. half note: Wiktionary
  9. half note: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Half Note, Half note (disambiguation), Half note: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. half note: Rhymezone
  12. half note: FreeDictionary.org
  13. half note: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. half-note, half note: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. half note: Infoplease Dictionary
  16. Half note, half note: Dictionary.com
  17. half note: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half note: Encyclopedia

(Note: See half_notes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (half note)

noun:  (Canada, US, music) A musical note that is two beats long, which is half the length of a semibreve and equal in length to two crotchets; a minim.

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