Wheatstone's rods

A form of Wheatstone's rod — 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.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of Wheatstone's rod
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