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- noun obsolete, rare An
instrument forcompounding theresultant of twoparallel ,simple ,harmonic waves .
Etymologies
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κῡμᾰτ- (kūmat-, the long stem of the Ancient Greek κῦμα, kūma, “wave”, whence cyma) + -graph; compare cymograph
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Acoustics were represented by an electro-magnetic brake siren of Mr. Bourbouze; Konig's apparatus for the synthesis of sounds; and Mr. S.P. Thompson's cymatograph -- a pendulum apparatus for demonstrating the phenomena of beats.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various
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