acoustics

acoustics
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
sound qualities, echoes, noise properties, sound transmission, sound frequencies.
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• absorbs all sound, produces no echoes: anechoic
• boom produced by object moving faster than sound: sonic boom
• harmonious sound: consonance
• hearing tester: audiometer
• high frequency sound above human hearing: ultrasound
• inharmonious sound: dissonance
• less than speed of sound: subsonic
• lowest sound audible to ear: threshold frequency
• noise made from blend of all audible frequencies: white noise
• prolonged sound caused by vibration or reflection: resonance
• quality of sound: timbre
• rebounding sound wave: echo
• speed of sound: sonic, 741 mph
• unit of noise intensity level: decibel

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