pause, n.Definitions

The Pause is that which creates the music.

The Pause is as important as the note.

The Pause is that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

The Pause has powerful rhetorical effect. While the right word may be effective, no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.