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Acoustics   /əkˈustɪks/   Listen
Acoustics

noun
1.
The study of the physical properties of sound.





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"Acoustics" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'See my ducks an' sack, Mr. Starke? Latest cut,' says I. 'Wish you knew my tailor. Man of enterprise, an' science, Sir. Knows mechanics, an' acoustics, an' the rest,—at his finger-ends,—well as his needle,' ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various
... crosswise and cater-cornered. I hurt diagonally and lengthwise and on the bias. I had a taste in my mouth like a bird-and-animal store. And empty! It seemed to me those doctors had not left anything inside of me except the acoustics. Well, there was a mite of consolation there. If the overhauling had been as thorough as I had reason to believe it was from my present sensations, I need never fear catching anything again so long as I ...
— "Speaking of Operations—" • Irvin S. Cobb
... faintest rustle of sound. Carl froze. His own trouser leg? A trick of acoustics? ...
— Martyr • Alan Edward Nourse
... There had been only one rehearsal in the pavilion and at that she had been content merely to sketch her work in, singing off the top of her voice. When she really opened up at the performance, the unfamiliar acoustics of the place frightened her into forcing, with the result that ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster


Words linked to "Acoustics" :   physical science, sound wave, acoustic, physics, harmonics, acoustician, acoustic radiation pressure, reflect, acoustic wave, phonetics, acoustical, reverberate


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