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TDSC

Time domain signal coding

thigmonasty

Thigmonasty or seismonasty is the nastic response of a plant or fungus to touch or vibration

Synonyms: seismonasty

tonotopic

"In the nervous system; the map-like arrangement of acoustic inter-neurones such that their frequency responses and position are related." [1]

References

  1. Ewing AW. Arthropod Bioacoustics: Neurobiology and Behaviour. Ithaca, New York: Comstock; 1989.
transient

"The sudden alteration of a signal due to the application or removal of a driving force." [1]

References

  1. Ewing AW. Arthropod Bioacoustics: Neurobiology and Behaviour. Ithaca, New York: Comstock; 1989.
tremulation

"Vibrations generated by unspecialized parts of the body (e.g. oscillations of the abdomen) and usually transmitted via legs through the substrate on which the insect is standing."[1]

"Rapid shaking." [2]

References

  1. Jacobs DSteve, Bastian A. Predator-Prey Interactions: Co-evolution between Bats and their Prey. Springer; 2016.
  2. Ragge DR, Reynolds WJ. The Songs of the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe. Colchester, Essex: Harley Books; 1998.
trill

"A sound in which the individual syllables run together to produce a more or less continuous note which may be amplitude-modulated." [1]

References

  1. Ewing AW. Arthropod Bioacoustics: Neurobiology and Behaviour. Ithaca, New York: Comstock; 1989.
tympana

Plural of tympanum

tympanal aperture

"The external opening leading to the tympanum, when it is not completely exposed." [1]

References

  1. Ragge DR, Reynolds WJ. The Songs of the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe. Colchester, Essex: Harley Books; 1998.
tympanate

"Posessing a tympanic membrane." [1]

References

  1. Jacobs DSteve, Bastian A. Predator-Prey Interactions: Co-evolution between Bats and their Prey. Springer; 2016.
tympanic membrane

"A thin membrane that separates the external ear from the middle ear and converts air pressure flucuations caused by the transmission of sound to vibrations." [1]

References

  1. Jacobs DSteve, Bastian A. Predator-Prey Interactions: Co-evolution between Bats and their Prey. Springer; 2016.
tympanum

"The membrane forming the outer part of the hearing organ." [1]

References

  1. Ragge DR, Reynolds WJ. The Songs of the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe. Colchester, Essex: Harley Books; 1998.

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith