tuning fork

English

A tuning fork.

Pronunciation

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

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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.

Translations

fork-shaped object which emits a tone

• Armenian: կամերտոն (hy) (kamerton)
• Azerbaijani: kamerton (az)
• Belarusian: камертон m (kamjertón)
• Bulgarian: камерто́н m (kamertón)
• Catalan: diapasó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音叉おんさ (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: 音叉おんさ (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.