tuning fork

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

tuning fork

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

tuning fork (plural tuning forks)

2. (music) A fork-shaped object which emits a tone of a specific frequency when struck, producing a reference note for tuning instruments.

Derived terms

• devil's tuning fork

Translations

fork-shaped object which emits a tone

Albanian: diapazon (sq) m Armenian: կամերտոն (hy) (kamerton) Azerbaijani: kamerton (az) Belarusian: камертон m (kamjertón) Bulgarian: камерто́н m (kamertón) Catalan: diapasó (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 音叉 (zh) (yīnchā) Czech: ladička (cs) f Danish: stemmegaffel c Dutch: stemvork (nl) Esperanto: agordilo Finnish: äänirauta (fi) French: diapason (fr) m German: Stimmgabel (de) f Greek: (invariable) διαπασών (el) n (diapasón) Hebrew: קולן (he) m (kolan) Hungarian: hangvilla (hu) Icelandic: tónkvísl f Indonesian: garpu tala (id) Irish: gabhlóg thiúnála f, gabhlóg thiúnta f, gabhlóg cheoil f Italian: corista (it) m, diapason (it) m Japanese: 音叉 (ja) (おんさ, onsa) Norwegian: Bokmål: stemmegaffel m Nynorsk: stemmegaffel m Polish: kamerton m, diapazon m Portuguese: diapasão (pt), lamiré m Romanian: diapazon (ro) n Russian: камерто́н (ru) m (kamertón) Spanish: diapasón (es) m Swedish: stämgaffel c Thai: ส้อมเสียง (sɔ̂m-sǐiang) Turkish: diyapazon (tr) Ukrainian: камерто́н (uk) m (kamertón) Vietnamese: thanh mẫu, âm thoa (vi) Zazaki: diapason m

References

• “tuning fork”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.