Beat

Beat may refer to:

Film

• Beat (filmmaking), the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play
• Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
• Beat (1998 film), a 1998 Japanese film
• Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a screenplay

Music and acoustics

• Beat (music), the basic time unit of a piece of music
• Beat (acoustics), volume fluctuations due to interference between sounds of different frequencies
• Beat music, a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s
• Beat (King Crimson album)
• The Beat (band), a ska band
• Beat (band), a Finnish band
• "Beat" (song), a song by Kaela Kimura
• Beats by Dr. Dre, a brand of headphones

Areas of territory

• Beat reporting, a subject of coverage by a journalist
• Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men for the purpose of casual sex
• Beat (police), the territory and time that a police officer patrols
• Forest beat, in forestry administration, a divisional subunit of a Forest range

Video games

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

Motor vehicles

• Chevrolet Beat, a car model

Other

• beat, a time unit of Swatch Internet Time
• Beat (soda), a drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company in Mexico

See also

• Beat Generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
• The Beat (disambiguation)
• Downbeat (disambiguation)
• On the Beat (disambiguation)
• Beet, a plant