Usually means: Four beats per measure, standard.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. common time: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. common time: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. common time: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. common time: Collins English Dictionary
  5. common time: Vocabulary.com
  6. common time: Wordnik
  7. common time: Wiktionary
  8. common time: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. common time: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Common time, common time: Dictionary.com
  11. Common Time, Common-time, Common time: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. common time: Rhymezone
  13. common time: Free Dictionary
  14. common time: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. common time: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. common time: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (common time)

noun:  (music) A meter of four quarter notes per measure.
noun:  (military) The ordinary pace of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute.

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