tympan

Meaning of tympan

noun
  1. A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
  2. The stretched membrane of a drum.
  3. A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
  4. A tympanum.

Information about tympan

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of tympan is: tympans.
  • Languages ​​in which tympan is used:

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Hyphenation of tympan

tym-pan

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • tympan is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

tympan synonyms

Meaning drum:

drum, membranophone

Words that rhyme with tympan

Tampan, jampan, sampan, tampan

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