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Definition of Matra
1. Noun. (music) A term in Indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala ¹
2. Noun. A term in Indian poetics and linguistics for the measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora ¹
3. Noun. The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in the Devanagari script ¹
4. Noun. An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts ¹
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