Usually means: Two beats of silence, music.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word half rest:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. half rest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. half rest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. half rest: Vocabulary.com
  4. half-rest: Wordnik
  5. half rest: Wiktionary
  6. half rest: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. half rest: Dictionary.com
  8. Half rest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. half rest: Rhymezone
  10. half rest: Free Dictionary
  11. half rest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. half rest: Dictionary/thesaurus
  13. half rest: Merriam-Webster.com

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

(Note: See half_rests as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (half rest)

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

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