Resonant reed (2)

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An electro-mechanical device consisting of a thin ferrous metal cantilever vane which vibrates at the frequency of its mechanical resonance, if the frequency of the a.c. magnetic field in which it is immersed is the same as the mechanical resonance frequency.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)