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Meanings of tympan in English

Portuguese
membranofone
Catalan
tambor
Spanish
membranófono

A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end.

        membranofone
        Usage of tympan in English
        1
        Preparing the tympan, regulating the impression, underlaying and overlaying, setting gauges, and other details explained.
        Division of Words / Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends ...
        2
        The composition, which fills the tympan of the scarcely-pointed arch, represents Christ surrounded by the twelve Apostles.
        Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
        3
        Over the cylinder is supported a diaphragm or tympan T, provided with a conical mouthpiece M for speaking into.
        The Story of Electricity
        4
        It consisted of a table, along which the forme of type, furnished with a tympan and frisket, was pushed by hand.
        Men of Invention and Industry
        5
        The tympan of the duplicating machine is sometimes made uneven so that the impression of a typewriter is still further carried out.
        Business Correspondence, Vol. 1: How to Write a Business Letter
        6
        The tympan employed for receiving is made of gold-beater's skin, having a stud at its centre and a springy stylus of steel wire.
        The Story of Electricity
        7
        The ornament is nearly confined to the tympan over the portal, the capitals of columns, and to the choir with its seven absidal chapels.
        Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for tympan
        Catalan
        tambor
        Tympan through the time