tuning fork

English

A tuning fork.

Pronunciation

(General Australian) IPA^(key): /tjʉːnɪŋ foːk/

Noun

tuning fork (plural tuning forks)

(music) A fork-shaped object which emits a tone of a specific frequency when struck.

Translations

fork-shaped object which emits a tone

Armenian: կամերտոն (hy) (kamerton)
Azerbaijani: kamerton (az)
Bulgarian: камерто́н m (kamertón)
Catalan: diapasó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 音叉 (zh) (yīnchā)
Dutch: stemvork (nl)
Esperanto: agordilo
Finnish: äänirauta (fi)
French: diapason (fr) m
German: Stimmgabel (de) f
Greek: (invariable) διαπασών (el) n (diapasón)
Hebrew: קולן‎ m (kolan)
Hungarian: hangvilla (hu)
Icelandic: tónkvísl f
Irish: gabhlóg thiúnála f, gabhlóg thiúnta f, gabhlóg cheoil f

Italian: corista (it) m, diapason (it) m
Japanese: 音叉 (おんさ, onsa)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stemmegaffel m

Nynorsk: stemmegaffel m
Portuguese: diapasão (pt), lamiré m
Romanian: diapazon (ro) n
Russian: камерто́н (ru) m (kamertón)
Spanish: diapasón m
Swedish: stämgaffel c
Thai: ส้อมเสียง (sɔ̂m-sǐiang)
Turkish: diyapazon (tr)
Ukrainian: камерто́н (uk) m (kamertón)
Vietnamese: thanh mẫu, âm thoa (vi)

References

“tuning fork” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

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