Beat
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Beat or beats may refer to:
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Area of territory [edit]
- Beat (police), the territory and time that a police officer patrols
- Beat reporting, a subject of coverage by a journalist
- Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men for the purpose of casual sex
- Forest beat, in forestry administration, a divisional subunit of a Forest range
Criminology [edit]
- The act of beating; battery
Entertainment and fiction [edit]
Film [edit]
- Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
- Beat (1998 film), a 1998 Japanese film
- Beat (filmmaking), the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play
- Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a screenplay
Music and acoustics [edit]
- Beat (acoustics), volume fluctuations due to interference between sounds of different frequencies
- Beat (King Crimson album)
- Beat (music), the basic time unit of a piece of music
- "Beat" (song), a song by Kaela Kimura
- The Beat (band), a ska band
- Beat music, a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s
- Beats by Dr. Dre, a brand of headphones
Video games [edit]
- Beat (video game character), a character from Jet Set Radio
- Beats (video game), a video game for PlayStation Portable
- Beat, a character from Eternal Sonata
- Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man series
- Beat, a character from The World Ends with You
- beat, a character from " kingdom hearts recoded "
Motor vehicles [edit]
Cars [edit]
- Beat, a model of the Japanese Daiichi Kosho Whisper paramotor
- Chevrolet Beat, a concept car providing the basis for the Daewoo Matiz M300
- Honda Beat, a 1991-1996 roadster
Other [edit]
- Honda FC50, a 50cc motor scooter also called "The Beat"
Other [edit]
- Beat (name), a German male given name
- Beat (soda), a drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company in Mexico
- Beating, in sailing upwind close-hauled with the wind coming from one side and then tacking
- beat, a time unit of Swatch Internet Time
- Beat, an intentional pause for emphasis in comic timing
See also [edit]
- Beat Generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
- The Beat (disambiguation)
- Downbeat (disambiguation)
- On the Beat (disambiguation)
- Beet, a plant
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