Look up: baton

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   Baton
   A baton is the stick with which the conductor of a choir or orchestra beats the time. In early times the bandmaster beat time with his foot, and Lulli knocked on the floor with a six foot stick. Spohr was the first to employ the baton in England, at a philharmonic concert in 1820.
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   baton
   [n] - an implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race 2. [n] - a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra
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   baton
   . Track. a hollow cylinder of wood, paper, or plastic that is passed in a prescribed area from one member of a relay team to the member next to compete..also relay baton SPOLY 72 176.. Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure
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   Baton
   Bat'on (băt'ŭn, F. bä`tôN'; 277) noun [ French bâton . See Baston .] 1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. « He held the baton of command. Prescott. » 2. (Her.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister ...
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   baton
   noun a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
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   BATON
   `BATON` is a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States government to secure all types of classified information. BATON has a 128-bit block size and a 320-bit key. 160 bits of the key are checksum material; they do not affect the security of the algorithm itself but rather prevent unauthorized keys from being loaded if a BATON device ends up in the hands of an adversary. BATON is fast: on the Advanced INFOSEC Machine (AIM) chip, it encrypts ...
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   Baton
   • (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister. • (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.Baton: words in...
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   baton
   (from the article `conductor`) For nearly two centuries, conductors favoured a baton, or thin wand, in the right hand as a device for emphasizing the metrical outline, reserving ...
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   baton
   (from the article `athletics`) The relays involve four runners per team, each member carrying a baton for 25 percent of the total distance before passing it to the next team ...
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