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Tympan vs Tampan - What's the difference?

tympan | tampan |

As nouns the difference between tympan and tampan

is that tympan is a piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed while tampan is a type of cloth from Indonesia.

tympan

English

(wikipedia tympan)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed
  • (musical instruments) the stretched membrane of a drum; a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end
  • (architecture) a tympanum
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    tampan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of cloth from Indonesia.
  • A type of tick from southern Africa.