double bar
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double bar
n. Music
A double vertical or heavy black line drawn through a staff to indicate the end of any of the main sections of a composition.
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double bar
n
(Classical Music) music a symbol, consisting of two ordinary bar lines or a single heavy one, that marks the end of a composition or a section within it
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dou′ble bar′
n.
a double vertical line on a musical staff indicating the end of a piece of music or a principal section.
[1665–75]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() bar line - a vertical line before the accented beat marking the boundary between musical bars |
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