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Tympan

//ˈtɪmpən// noun

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

    "As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan."

  2. 2
    a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end wordnet
  3. 3
    The stretched membrane of a drum.
  4. 4
    A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
  5. 5
    A tympanum.
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  1. 6
    The tympanum of the ear.

    "But soon I grew used to these sounds, and then I understood as well as ever, that is to say fully one half of what won its way past my tympan."

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tympanum.

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