tympanum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A drum.
2. isim The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).

   “When he came around, the star sound was gone. The ringing it left in his tympana was a great confusion.”

3. isim The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).
4. isim A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
5. isim A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.
6. isim (in certain birds) The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.
7. isim A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated.
8. isim The recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

   “It was a black-and-white picture of a Romanesque doorway, with flanking saints and a lively Last Judgement in the tympanum […].”

9. isim A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation.