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Beat or beats may refer to:
Common usage
- Strike (attack), repeatedly striking a person or object
- Victory to win, outdo, outfox or otherwise achieve a victory over another (or the odds)
- Patrol an area (usually geographic) that one is responsible to monitor, including:
- 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
- The act of beating; battery
People
- Beat (name), a German male given name
Companies, brands and organisations
- Beat (charity), a British charity that supports people with eating disorders
- Beats Electronics, American producer of audio products, such as the Beats by Dr. Dre headphones
- Beat (soda), a drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company in Mexico
Film and theatre
- Beat (filmmaking), the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play
- Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a script
- Unit of action, also called a beat
- Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
- Beat (1998 film), a 1998 Japanese film
- Beat (1997 film), a 1997 South Korean gangster film
Music and acoustics
- Beat (acoustics), volume fluctuations due to interference between sounds of different frequencies
- Beat (music), the basic time unit or pulse in a piece of music representing one moment in time, or a segment of rhythm or cadence.
- Beat music, a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s
- Pulse (music), in music and music theory, beats in a (repeating) series of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in time occurring at the mensural level
- The Beat (British band), a ska band
- Beat (band), a Finnish band
- Beat (album), a 1982 album by King Crimson
- "Beat" (song), a 2005 Japanese song by Kaela Kimura
Video games
- Beat (video game character), a character from Jet Set Radio
- Beats (video game), a 2007 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 and Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
Motor vehicles
- 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
- Honda FC50, a 50cc motor scooter also called "The Beat"
Other
- 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
- 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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