cadence
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General noun
The rhythmic rise and fall or modulation of the voice or of music.
There was a hypnotic cadence to the auctioneer's rapid-fire chant.
Medicine noun
The number of steps taken per minute during walking or running.
Increasing her cadence slightly reduced the load on the knee during each running stride.
Business noun
The regular, agreed rhythm at which meetings, updates or reviews recur during an engagement.
We settled on a weekly cadence for the working team and fortnightly for the steerco.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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