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tympan
- /ˈtɪmpən/
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From Medieval Latin tympanum.
noun tympans
- 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.
- The stretched membrane of a drum.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
- A tympanum.
- 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.
Talk about this word "tympan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tympan. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tympan. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tympan "tympan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tympan.
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@misc{tympan_2026,
title = {tympan},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tympan},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
