[
US
/ˈtɪmpənəm/
]
[ UK /tˈɪmpænəm/ ]
[ UK /tˈɪmpænəm/ ]
NOUN
- the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear
- the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
- a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
How To Use tympanum In A Sentence
- Although now installed in the north transept of the later church, the plaque exactly fits a cavity in the tympanum over the original door giving access from the Panteon to the main sanctuary.
- The center doorway is decorated with an elegant tympanum border of marble carved with foliage.
- Some of the ornamental details, such as the projecting shell of the tympanum, are also found on case pieces made in Salem and Newburyport, Massachusetts.
- Inserted as a tympanum into the skylight of the rear gallery, Red Brace involved LED ‘beams’ that gave the illusion of floating and moving up and down in space.
- In the Romanesque and Gothic styles, the archivolt frames the tympanum, a richly sculpted panel.
- Their main picture was of an enormous banner extending right across the width of the Palshaw Tunnel mouth like a gigantic tympanum. A DEAD LIBERTY
- Find the tympanum on the grasshopper.
- The tympanum over the door contained a white marble medallion relief of a mother nursing her children.
- That approach is limited to proceeding no further than the stimulation of sensory receptor sheets (retina, skin, taste buds, tympanum, olfactories).
- The tympanum of turtles is supported by a deep quadrate emargination, and the stapes of turtles is slender because it must vibrate quickly to transmit the sounds from the tympanum to the middle ear.