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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪmpən/

名詞

tympan (複数形 tympans)

1. (printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
   • 2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:

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

2. (music) The stretched membrane of a drum.
3. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
4. (architecture) A tympanum.
5. The tympanum of the ear.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:

     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.

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