| tomogram |
a tomographic photograph. |
| tomography |
a technique of x-ray photography that reveals only one plane of a body's internal structure and eliminates all others. |
| tomorrow |
the day after today. [4 definitions] |
| Tom Sawyer |
a novel by Mark Twain published in 1876. [2 definitions] |
| Tom Thumb |
the extremely small hero of many English folk tales. |
| tom-tom |
any of various small or narrow drums, such as those of American Indian or African tribes, usu. played with the hands. [2 definitions] |
| -tomy |
an act of cutting or dividing, esp. in surgery. |
| ton |
a unit of weight equal to two thousand pounds or 907.185 kilograms, used in the United States and Canada; short ton. [7 definitions] |
| tonal |
of or relating to a musical tone, tones, or tonality. |
| tonality |
a particular musical scale or key. [3 definitions] |
| tondo |
a circular painting. |
| tone |
a sound with reference to its pitch, strength, or duration. [10 definitions] |
| tone arm |
the pivoting arm on a phonograph that holds the needle. |
| tone cluster |
a group of notes close in pitch to each other played simultaneously, as on a keyboard or by several instrumentalists. |
| tone color |
the characteristic quality of sound from an instrument or voice; timbre. |
| tone control |
on an amplifier, a manually controlled device that regulates the intensity of high and low frequencies. |
| tone-deaf |
unable to distinguish differences in musical pitch. |
| tone down |
to make less harsh, loud, or bright; soften. |
| tone language |
a language, such as Chinese, Swedish, or Bantu, in which the pitch or tone contour of a word helps to distinguish its meaning from that of another word that otherwise sounds like it; tonal language. |
| toneless |
combined form of tone. |
| tone poem |
see "symphonic poem." |