Rattle
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Rattle may mean
- Rattle (percussion)Rattle (percussion)A rattle is a percussion instrument. It consists of a hollow body filled with small uniform solid objects, like sand or nuts. Rhythmical shaking of this instrument produces repetitive, rather dry timbre noises. In some kinds of music, a rattle assumes the role of the metronome, as an alternative to...
- RATTLE magazine, an American poetry journal
- Bird-scaring rattle, a Slovene device used to drive birds off vineyards and a folk instrument
- Ratchet (instrument)Ratchet (instrument)A ratchet, also called a noisemaker , is an orchestral musical instrument played by percussionists. Operating on the principle of the ratchet device, a gearwheel and a stiff board is mounted on a handle, which can be freely rotated...
, a percussion instrument - Death rattleDeath rattleA death rattle is a medical term that describes the sound produced by someone who is near death when saliva accumulates in the throat. Those who are dying may lose their ability to swallow, resulting in such an accumulation...
- RhinanthusRhinanthusRhinanthus is a genus of annual hemiparasitic herbs in the family Orobanchaceae, formerly classified in the family Scrophulariaceae. The genus consists of about 30-40 species found in Europe, northern Asia, and North America, with the greatest species diversity in Europe.Selected...
, a genus of plants - Rattle, DerbyshireRattle, DerbyshireRattle is a hamlet in the English county of Derbyshire. It is part of the village of Ashover. This portion of the village was the centre of stocking frame working in Ashover and probably derives its name from the noise made by the machines....
, a hamlet in England - The RattlesThe RattlesThe Rattles are a rock band from Germany. Their biggest selling record was their 1968 recorded song, "The Witch", which sold over one million copies globally.-Career:...
, German rock band who recorded an upbeat version of "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" in the 1960's also famous for their 1970 hit "The Witch" - RATTLE, a constraint algorithmConstraint algorithmIn mechanics, a constraint algorithm is a method for satisfying constraints for bodies that obey Newton's equations of motion. There are three basic approaches to satisfying such constraints: choosing novel unconstrained coordinates , introducing explicit constraint forces, and minimizing...
used in molecular dynamics simulations - Rattle GUIRattle GUIRattle GUI is a free and open source software package providing a graphical user interface for Data Mining using the R statistical programming language. The source code available at http://rattle.googlecode.com. Rattle is currently used around the world, in a variety of situations...
a gui for the statistical programming language R - Football rattle, a ratchet used by football fans to make a supportive or celebratory noise