Definitions for tympan

tympan tym·pan

Spelling: [tim-puh n]
IPA: /ˈtɪm pən/

Tympan is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in tympan (amnpty).

Definitions for tympan

noun

  1. Printing. a padlike device interposed between the platen or its equivalent and the sheet to be printed, in order to soften and equalize the pressure.
  2. tympanum (defs 2, 4).

Origin of tympan

before 900; Middle English: drum, Old English Latin tympanum tympanum

Examples for tympan

Nothing remained now but to adjust the guides which would hold the cards on the tympan.

These sheets are held in place by means of the iron clamps which slip over the ends of the tympan (see Fig. 160).

While this was being done, the other man was placing the sheet of paper on the "tympan."

The bed traveled on guide ways, and the tympan and frisket were hinged to fold back and lay in elevated position.

In the cut at the head of this article, the pressman is represented as in the act of turning down the frisket upon the tympan.

Word Value for tympan
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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