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tympan::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | drum, membranophone |
| Type of | percussive instrument, percussion instrument |
| Has types | bongo drum, gran casa, tom-tom, bongo, timbrel, bass drum, side drum, snare, snare drum, tabor, tabour, tambour, tambourine, tenor drum |
| Derivation | tympanist |
Examples of tympan
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When it is rotated, the stars and the ecliptic move over the projection of the coordinates on the tympan.
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Then the screw is reversed, the windlass turned again to move the bed back to its original position, the tympan and frisket raised and opened, and the printed sheet removed.
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Above the mater and tympan, the rete, a framework bearing a projection of the ecliptic plane and several pointers indicating the positions of the brightest stars, is free to rotate.
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- Drum: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- ' In hand-operated letterpress printing, the bruzer tympan' is the taut cloth or paper mounted in a frame which is placed over the sheet of paper immediately prior to lowering the platen to make the impression.
- A tympan is a sheet or blanket that holds the paper in place once on a press. It also buffers the paper from the pressure of the platen or scrapper of a lithography press.
- A makeready oil, chemical, and ink resistant packing paper manufactured in calipers from 0.003 to 0.15 inches.
- Eardrum or its enclosure
