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common measure
com·mon meas·ure


noun 
Definition:
 
1. music 
Same as  common time
2. poetry 4-line stanza form for ballads: the stanza form used for ballads, with four iambic lines rhymed "abab" or "abac"
3.  (plural com·mon meas·ures) mathematics 
Same as  common divisor
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