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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 tonguing
 振動拍攝

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tongue v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tongued p. pr. & vb. n. Tonguing.]
 1. To speak; to utter. “Such stuff as madmen tongue.”
 2. To chide; to scold.
    How might she tongue me.   --Shak.
 3. Mus. To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
 4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tongu·ing vb. n. Music Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute. In single tonguing only one kind of stroke is used, the tongue articulating a rapid “t;” in double tonguing, two strokes, as for “t” and “k,” are alternated; in triple tonguing, “t, k, t,” etc.