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Tuning fork   /tˈunɪŋ fɔrk/   Listen
Tuning fork

noun
1.
A metal implement with two prongs that gives a fixed tone when struck; used to tune musical instruments.





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"Tuning fork" Quotes from Famous Books



... also suggested reasons for looking upon physical life as a mode of frequency, akin to Light, Electricity, Magnetism, Chemical Action, the Vibration of a Tuning Fork, or the Swing of a Pendulum, and therefore a transient phenomenon having to do only with the Race; Life can under these conditions only be looked upon as a reality in the same sense in which all other forms of energy or matter appear real to our finite senses—namely, as the shadows or manifestations ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein


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