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Contents 1 Literature, theatre, film and music 2 Science 3 Areas of territory 4 Hunting 5 Video Games 6 Miscellaneous 7 People 8 See also

Beat may refer to:

• Battery (crime), contact on another person in a manner likely to cause bodily harm
• Beating up (assault)
• Beat (music), the basic time unit of a piece of music

[edit] Literature, theatre, film and music

• Beat (filmmaking), a 'bit' is also known (particularly in the US) as a beat, referring to the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play
• Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs, directed by Gary Walkow with Courtney Love and Kiefer Sutherland
• Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a screenplay, usually taking the form of action-reaction
• Meter (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of verse
• Beat generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
• Beat (King Crimson album), a 1982 album by experimental band King Crimson
• The Beat (band), ska band, known as The English Beat in the US

[edit] Science

• Beat (acoustics), the oscillation between zero intensity and full intensity that occurs when two frequencies (which are not harmonically related) are added together, caused by alternating constructive and destructive interference of the pressure waves

[edit] Areas of territory

A "beaten path" is a path made by the repeated treadings of feet. Thus:

• Beat, the territory and time that a police officer patrols
• Beat reporting, a subject of coverage by a journalist, e.g., "Her beat is politics."
• Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men for the purpose of casual sex
• Forest beat, a divisional subunit used for administering forests in India, see Forest range

[edit] Hunting

• A "beat", in Scotland, is related to the above meaning of "beaten path" and refers to a route taken by deer stalkers (as deep hunters are called in that region)
• "Beating for game" in hunting means to systematically attack vegetation to drive out of cover whatever animals or birds that the hunters are hunting

[edit] Video Games

• Beats (video game), a video game for PlayStation Portable
• Beat (video game character), a character from the Jet Set Radio video game series
• Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man series of games
• Beat, a character from the Eternal Sonata RPG video game
• Beat, a character from the The World Ends With You RPG Nintendo DS game

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Beat (name), a common male given name in the German-speaking part of Switzerland
• .beat, the unit of the Swatch Internet Time
• Sailing upwind or beating, sailing a sailboat against the wind direction.
• Beat (soda), a brand of cola produced in Mexico by Coca-Cola
• Chevrolet Beat, a subcompact automobile produced by General Motors
• Honda Beat, an automobile produced by Honda Motor Co.
• beat, a British medical charity formerly known as Eating Disorders Association

[edit] People

• Beat, the fictional first name of the New York Yankees pitcher, Chien-Ming Wang

[edit] See also

• On the Beat
• Beet

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