tuning fork

English

Pronunciation

(General Australian) IPA^(key): /tjʉːnɪŋ foːk/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

tuning fork (plural tuning forks)

(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

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.