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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CHLADNI FIGURE

Named after Ernst Chladni (1756–1827), German physicist.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CHLADNI FIGURE

Chladni figure  [ˈklɑːdnɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHLADNI FIGURE

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preposition
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Chladni figure is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHLADNI FIGURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ernst Chladni

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the "father of acoustics", included research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases. He also undertook pioneering work in the study of meteorites and so is also regarded by some as the "father of meteoritics".

Definition of Chladni figure in the English dictionary

The definition of Chladni figure in the dictionary is a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHLADNI FIGURE


Ariadne
ˌærɪˈædnɪ
kidney
ˈkɪdnɪ
Rodney
ˈrɒdnɪ
Sidney
ˈsɪdnɪ
Sydney
ˈsɪdnɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHLADNI FIGURE

Chkalov
chlamydate
chlamydeous
chlamydia
chlamydiae
chlamydial
chlamydomonas
chlamydospore
chlamys
chloanthite
chloasma
chloasmata
Chlodwig
Chloe

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHLADNI FIGURE

action figure
configure
cult figure
cut a good figure
cut a poor figure
disfigure
double-figure
father figure
figure
go figure
hourglass figure
index figure
ligure
prefigure
reconfigure
refigure
single-figure
solid figure
stick figure
terminal figure
transfigure

Synonyms and antonyms of Chladni figure in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Chladni figure» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHLADNI FIGURE

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Translator English - Chinese

奇洛德尼图
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

figura Chladni
570 millions of speakers

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Chladni figure
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Chladni आंकड़ा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الرقم Chladni
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Хладни фигуры
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

figura Chladni
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চাঁদনী চিত্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Chladni chiffre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Angka Chladni
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Chladni Figur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クラドニフィギュア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Chladni 그림
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gambar tokoh
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

con số Chladni
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Chladni எண்ணிக்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Chladni आकृती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Chladni figürü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Chladni figura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postać Chladni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Хладни фігури
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

figura Chladni
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Chladni σχήμα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Chladni figuur
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Chladni figur
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Chladni figur
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHLADNI FIGURE»

Discover the use of Chladni figure in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Chladni figure and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Quantum Chaos: Between Order and Disorder
One observes a regular net of intersecting circles and straight lines which is typical for an integrable system. The photograph in the middle shows a Chladni figure for a rectangular plate. Here the central clamp disturbs the integrability making ...
Giulio Casati, Boris Chirikov, 2006
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Quantum Chaos: An Introduction
Figure 2.2(c) finally displays a Chladni figure for a nonintegrable plate in the shape of a quarter Sinai billiard. A Sinai billiard is formed by a rectangle or square with a central circle. For these systems the Russian mathematician Sinai has been ...
Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann, 2006
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On Musical Self-similarity: Intersemiosis as Synecdoche and ...
For example, a Chladni figure obtained by a vibrating plate can be represented by the recording of the vibrating plate; in turn this recording can be used to make a similar plate vibrate, producing the same Chladni figure. In consequence, [t]he  ...
Gabriel Pareyón, 2011
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Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries: Philosophy, ...
We have here in town 3 worthy representatives: an 0rsted, whose face to me has always resembled a Chladni figure that nature has touched in the right way.12 After this he mentions two botanists, Joachim Frederik Schouw (1789-1852) and  ...
Jon Bartley Stewart, 2009
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Instruments and the Imagination
Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman. Fig. 6.12. Making a Chladni figure. From Deschanel, Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy, p. 787. Courtesy of the University of Washington Libraries. Lichtenberg's electrostatic figures — patterns ...
Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman, 1999
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Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, on ...
... being indicated by the place of the sand — from Chladni. Figure 8. — Waves or pulses of sound diverging from a point near the centre of a circle, and converging , after reflection, to a point at an equal distance on the other side of the centre.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Ventilation, Sound, etc, W. S. Inman, 1836
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Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Journals AA-DD
17 Chladni-figure] Symmetrical pattern or figure formed, for example, by sand on a plate of glass or metal when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge. Also called "acoustic figures." The phenomenon was discovered in 1787 by the ...
Søren Kierkegaard, Bruce H. Kirmmse, Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, 2007
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Key Texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810) on the ...
I would also like to know whether the vibrating places, or the lines of (external) rest, would glow; in the first case the Chladni figure would remain dark. I would also still wish for experiments with powder mixtures, such as with Villarsi's [sic] ...
Johann Wilhelm Ritter, 2010
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Cymatherapy - A Practical Guide for Everyone
Soundscape created by Chladni. Figure 3. Soundscape created by Hans Jenny. Figure 5. A Cyma Glyph produced by the Cymascope in water by John Stuart Reid using the Cymatherapy® commutation for Acupuncture Blockage Removal  ...
Chris Gibbs, 2010
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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Proverbs 24.26, following Luther's translation: 'Eine richtige Antwort ist wie ein lieblicher Kuss.' Plato, Phaedrus, Chapters 31ff. 'Pendet ab ore magistri.' Sound- image (klangfigur) or so-called Chladni figure (after their discoverer, the German  ...
Soren Kierkegaard, 2004

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