Usually means: Metrical foot, one stressed, two unstressed.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dactyls: Merriam-Webster
  2. dactyls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dactyls: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dactyls, dactyls: Wordnik
  5. dactyls: Wiktionary
  6. dactyls: Dictionary.com
  7. Dactyls (mythology), Dactyls: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Dactyls: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. Dactyls: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dactyls: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dactyls: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dactyls: Medical dictionary

(Note: See dactyl as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dactyl)

noun:  A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.
▸ Also see dactyl


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