kundt's tube

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   a measuring instrument used to measure the speed of sound

   Broadermeasuring instrument

Questions about kundt's tube

What does kundt's tube mean?

kundt's tube means "a measuring instrument used to measure the speed of sound".

Is kundt's tube a common word?

kundt's tube is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.