cymatograph

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See also: Cymatograph

English

Etymology

κῡμᾰτ- (kūmat-) (kūmat-, the long stem of the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma), kūma, “wave”, whence cyma) +‎ -graph; compare cymograph

Pronunciation

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Noun

cymatograph (plural cymatographs)

  1. (obsolete, rare) An instrument for compounding the resultant of two parallel, simple, harmonic waves.
    • 1885, Nature XXXII, page 279
      Prof. S. P. Thompson…had also lent for exhibition…a “cymatograph” (an instrument for compounding the resultant of two parallel, simple, harmonic waves).
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