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/tˈunɪŋ fɔrk/ Listen

Tuning fork

noun

A metal implement with two prongs that gives a fixed tone when struck; used to tune musical instruments.

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"Tuning fork" Quotes from Famous Books

... things, along the way, with a lightness of manner, which was none the less as delicately cautious as the footsteps of a cat walking on a shelf of fragile china. Each felt the challenge and response of natures keyed to the same pitch of life's tuning fork. ...

— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck

... Tap a tuning fork against the desk, then hold the prongs lightly against your lips. Can you feel them vibrate? Tap it again, and hold the fork close to your ear. Can you hear ...

— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne

... Hughes audiometer or sonometer applied to determining the quality of a person's hearing (See Hughes' Induction Balance,—Audiometer). The central coil by means of a tuning fork and microphone with battery receives a rapidly varying current tending to induce currents in the other two coils. Telephones are put in circuit with the latter and pick up sound from them. The telephones ...

— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

Words linked to "Tuning fork" : implement