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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: acoustics
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History
Named after English physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), who devised them.
