Usually means: Instrument for producing fixed pitches.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word tuning fork:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. tuning fork: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tuning fork: Merriam-Webster
  3. tuning fork: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tuning fork: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tuning fork: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tuning fork: Vocabulary.com
  7. tuning-fork, tuning fork: Wordnik
  8. tuning fork: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tuning fork: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. tuning fork: Wiktionary
  11. tuning fork: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tuning fork: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tuning fork: Dictionary.com
  14. tuning fork: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tuning fork: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. tuning fork: Rhymezone
  17. tuning-fork: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. tuning fork: FreeDictionary.org
  19. tuning fork: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tuning fork: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tuning fork: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tuning-fork, tuning fork: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tuning fork: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tuning-fork, tuning fork: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tuning Fork: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tuning fork: The Folk File

(Note: See tuning_forks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tuning fork)

noun:  (music) A fork-shaped object which emits a tone of a specific frequency when struck, producing a reference note for tuning instruments.

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