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What does mensural mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word mensural? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to measure or measurement.
  2. (music) Having a fixed rhythm.
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The whole note derives from the semibrevis of mensural notation, and this is the origin of the British name.
The signs of time were placed over the stave, and were not repeated unless the mensural values changed.
A Josquin mensural canon highlighted the unusual nature of this group's repertoire and rounded off their stimulating recital with fresh imagination.
In his lectures he concentrated first on the theme of mensural music, and developed an interest in music publishing.
We measured the asymmetry of five mensural and seven meristic characters of 175 collared lizards from north-central Oklahoma.
This practice is also absent in mensural sources inside and ouside Germany.

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