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tuning fork
noun
- a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
tuning fork
noun
- a two-pronged metal fork that when struck produces a pure note of constant specified pitch. It is used to tune musical instruments and in acoustics
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of tuning fork1
Example Sentences
They also approached the spiders with a tuning fork that vibrated at the same frequency as the insects鈥 beating wings.
Davis and a team of undergraduates from the Odum School used a tuning fork to simulate the vibrations caused by prey when caught in a spider's web and then watched if the spiders attacked.
鈥淥ne morning we got in this argument, and she picked up this fork and threw it across the table and it stuck in my side. It sounded like a tuning fork.鈥
The U-M researchers point to what's called the Hubble tuning fork, a diagram that depicts the way astronomer Edwin Hubble classified galaxies.
Then she held a tuning fork over our heads.
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