单词 | vibrator |
释义 | vibratorn. 1. That which vibrates, or causes vibration. a. One of the vibrating reeds of an organ, harmonium, etc., by which the sound is produced. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > reed-organ > parts of vibrator1862 percussion stop1875 striking-reed1875 knee-stop1876 percussion1879 tube-board1880 pedal1882 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3391 Notes or vibrators, keys, pipes, stops, &c., for harmonium making or organ building. 1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 167/1 This vibrator is the origin of our reed instruments. 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 293/1 There can be no escape of wind from the wind-chest, except through the vibrators and pallet-holes. b. One or other of various appliances, instruments, or parts, which have or cause a vibratory motion or action. spec. (a) A device for compacting concrete by vibration before it has set. (b) A small electrically operated device for producing sexual stimulation. Also attributive.A number of others are specified in recent American dictionaries. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > equipment for concrete construction vibrator1888 slip form1958 shutter1965 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > object used in sexual activity > [noun] > vibrator vibrator1888 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > that which vibrates vibrator1888 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 706/1 A composition roller, called a vibrator. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 152 Vibrator rollers, those rollers on a machine which have a vibrating motion, and convey the ink to the slab for distribution. 1906 Daily Chron. 6 Apr. 9/5 There are also beauty rollers and massage vibrators. 2. Mathematics. (See quot. 1879.) ΚΠ 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §345 The reciprocal of this time we shall call..the rapidity of the system, for convenience of comparison with the frequency of a vibrator or of a rotator, which is the name commonly given to the reciprocal of its period. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1862 |
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