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A musical percussion instrument
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tympan
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed 2 (context musical instruments English) the stretched membrane of a drum; a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder ...
WordNet
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n. a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end [syn: drum , membranophone ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tympan \Tym"pan\, n. [F., fr. tympanum a kettledrum, a panel of a door. See Tympanum , and cf. Tymp .] A drum. [Obs.] (Arch.) A panel; a tympanum. (Print.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tympan means skin, and is used in a variety of technical meanings. Astrolabes In an astrolabe , a tympan is a metal plate on which the coordinates of the celestial sphere ( azimuth and altitude ) are engraved in a stereographic projection . A tympan is ...
Usage examples of tympan.
Then a row on the lever, a ship-creak of timber as the platen fell and rose again, and a sheet under the tympan for Herr Gutenberg to inspect.
Master Li lifted his left hand and the white tip of the green silk scarf snapped back, and the great twisted figure of Bounding and Rushing extended his cloth-wrapped sticks over the taut surface of the huge tympan atop the center platform and began a quiet steady drumroll.