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noun (plural: morae or moras)
- (Scots law) A delay in bringing a claim.
- (poetics) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
- 1918: Elcanon Isaacs, "The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry", American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 35: 20-54
- :In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae and a light syllable equivalent to one .
- (linguistics) A unit of sound used in phonology, by which stress or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
- (botany) A genus of large South American trees.
- 1904: W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest
- :At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.
Etymology: From moraLatin, mora ("duration of time", "delay").
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