Usually means: Silence for an entire measure.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. whole rest: Merriam-Webster
  2. whole rest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. whole rest: Vocabulary.com
  4. whole rest: Wiktionary
  5. whole rest: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. whole rest: Dictionary.com
  7. Whole rest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. whole rest: Rhymezone
  9. whole rest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. whole rest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. whole rest: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See whole_rests as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (whole rest)

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

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