protend

verb /pɹəʊˈtɛnd/

1. To hold out; to stretch forth.

   obsolete, transitive

   With his protended lance he makes defence.

2. To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.

   At the moment that the first beat is sounded, if the listener is to hear it as a division of a larger temporal unit, he or she must concretely protend the other beats of the bar; that is, the listener must experience, in the temporal "space" of the near future, three more beats while he or she is hearing the present beat in the now-point.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin protendere, from pro (“before, forth”) + tendere (“to stretch”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry protend (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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