Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small two-pronged metal device that when struck produces a sound of fixed pitch that is used as a reference, as in tuning musical instruments.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A steel instrument with two prongs, designed to produce, when struck, a musical tone of some particular pitch. Its invention is ascribed to John Shore, in the middle of the eighteenth century. Tuning-forks are particularly useful because their tone is comparatively free from harmonics, and because their pitch is not disturbed by ordinary changes of temperature. They are therefore much employed in acoustical investigation and to furnish convenient standards of pitch. Compare
tonometer , and seepitch .
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Mus.) a steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle, which, being struck, gives a certain fixed tone. It is used for tuning instruments, or for ascertaining the pitch of tunes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a metal implement with two prongs that gives a fixed tone when struck; used to tune musical instruments
Examples
“His voice made up in genuine fervor what it lacked in volume, and the rabbi enjoyed his chanting with its traditional quavers and trills more than the studied effects of the cantor who surreptitiously would stoop and tap his tuning fork and hum the pitch before beginning a chant.”
“Students learn advanced hairspring manipulation, friction jeweling, disassembly, cleaning, and repair, electrical theory as it applies to watches and timepieces, and repairing tuning fork electronic movements.”
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