Definitions for tympanum

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tympanum tym·pa·num

Spelling: [tim-puh-nuh m]

IPA: /ˈtɪm pə nəm/

Tympanum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in tympanum (ammnptuy).

Definitions for tympanum

noun

1. Anatomy, Zoology. middle ear. tympanic membrane.
2. Architecture. the recessed, usually triangular space enclosed between the horizontal and sloping cornices of a pediment, often decorated with sculpture. a similar space between an arch and the horizontal head of a door or window below.
3. Electricity. the diaphragm of a telephone.
4. a drum or similar instrument.
5. the stretched membrane forming a drumhead.

Origin of tympanum

1610-20; Latin Greek týmpanon drum, akin to týptein to beat, strike

Examples for tympanum

The tympanum is filled with stones arranged in zig-zag patterns.

Imagine such an establishment domesticated at one's tympanum!

In the tympanum are good reliefs and a well-cut Adoration of the Magi.

It consists of a tympanum or drum, having a stylus attached as in the phonograph.

The tympanum of the large arch is pierced with a quatrefoil or trefoil.

In the tympanum is the subject of the Last Judgment in relief.

This tympanum, surmounted by a large cornice, dominates the work.

First of all, in the tympanum of the left bay, we have His Last Coming.

There is no external ear, no tympanum, and no Eustachian tube.

Elden, was intended to cure deafness by cutting the tympanum.