Rattle may refer to:

Instruments

Crotalus (liturgy) A crotalus ( es, matraca), also known as a crotalum or clapper, is a wooden liturgical rattle or clapper that replaces altar bells during the celebration of the Tridentine Paschal Triduum at the end of Lent in the Catholic Church. It is ...

, a liturgical percussion instrument *

Rattle (percussion instrument) A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken. Rattles are described in the Hornbostel–Sachs system as ''Shaken Idiophones or Rattles (112.1)''. According to Sachs, Rattles include: * Maracas, widely use ...

, a type of percussion instrument *

Rattle (percussion beater) A rattle is a percussion beater that is attached to or enclosed by a percussion instrument so that motion of the instrument will cause the rattle to strike the instrument and create musical sound. Examples include: * The rivets of a sizzle cymbal ...

, a part of some percussion instruments *

Ratchet (instrument) A ratchet or rattle, more specifically, cog rattle is a musical instrument of the percussion family and a warning/signaling device. It operates on the principle of the ratchet device, using a gearwheel and a stiff board mounted on a handle, whi ...

, a percussion instrument * Bird-scaring rattle, a Slovene device used to drive birds off vineyards and a folk instrument * Toy rattle, a baby toy

Music

* The Rattles, German rock band who recorded an upbeat version of "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" in the 1960s also famous for their 1970 hit "The Witch" * "Rattle" (song), a 2011 electro house song by Dutch duo Bingo Players * " Rattle!", a 2020 song by American contemporary worship band Elevation Worship *

Rattle Records Rattle Records, established in 1991, is a contemporary art-music label based in Auckland, New Zealand. It releases compositions generally by New Zealand composers in contemporary art genres. It has been described as "the de facto home of New Zeala ...

, a New Zealand contemporary art-music label.

Places

Rattle, Derbyshire Rattle 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. T ...

, a hamlet in England *

Rattle Hill Rattle Hill is a mountain in Sullivan County, New York Sullivan County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 78,624. The county seat is Monticello. The county's name honors Major General Jo ...

, a summit in Sullivan County, New York

People

Frederick Rattle Frederick Bowden Rattle (13 August 1869 – 13 August 1950) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hobart and was an accountant and solicitor before entering politics. In 1903 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the m ...

(1869–1950), Australian politician *

Nick Levay Nick Levay (1977–2021) also known as Rattle was an American computer security expert and hacker. He was the Chief Security Officer at the Council on Foreign Relations and other organizations such as Carbon Black and the Center for American ...

aka Rattle (1977–2021), American computer security expert * Simon Rattle (born 1955), English conductor

Science

Death rattle Terminal respiratory secretions (or simply terminal secretions),, known colloquially as a death rattle, are sounds often produced by someone who is near death as a result of fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions accumulating in the throa ...

gurgling In fluid mechanics, two-phase flow is a flow of gas and liquid — a particular example of multiphase flow. Two-phase flow can occur in various forms, such as flows transitioning from pure liquid to vapor as a result of external heating, separ ...

sounds often produced by a person near death * ''

Rhinanthus ''Rhinanthus'' is a genus of annual hemiparasitic herbaceous plants in the family Orobanchaceae, formerly classified in the family Scrophulariaceae. Its species are commonly known as rattles. The genus consists of about 30 to 40 species found in ...

'', a genus of plants * RATTLE, a

constraint algorithm In computational chemistry, a constraint algorithm is a method for satisfying the Newtonian motion of a rigid body which consists of mass points. A restraint algorithm is used to ensure that the distance between mass points is maintained. The gen ...

used in molecular dynamics simulations * Rattle GUI a gui for the statistical programming language R

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