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Wheatstone's rod en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after English physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), who devised them.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:acoustics) Either of a pair of flexible rods whose periods of vibration in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes through vibration the corresponding Lissajous figure.

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