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Meaning of tympan

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

tympan

noun

Definitions

  1. A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.

  2. The stretched membrane of a drum.

  3. A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.

  4. A tympanum.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tympan

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