tympan
noun
- 1
A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
- 2
The stretched membrane of a drum.
- 3
A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
- 4
A tympanum.
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