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Sonic

adjective

(of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level. Synonym: transonic.

Relating to audible sound.

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"Sonic" Quotes from Famous Books

... one could feel the least motion in them. Finally, to our great joy, we felt a brisk little kick, and then a flutter of wings, and then a determined peck of the beak, which showed that there was sonic bird left in him yet, and that he meant at any rate to find ...

— Queer Little Folks • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... continual bustle of a great city—all this frightened the creature. It was being attacked—or, at least that's what it must have figured. Result: it struck back the only way it knew how. Have you ever heard about sub-sonic sound-waves, Mr. Whitney, waves of sound so low that our ears cannot pick them up—waves of sound which can nevertheless stir our emotions? Such things exist, and, as a working hypothesis, I would say Black Eyes' strange powers ...

— Black Eyes and the Daily Grind • Milton Lesser

... and a pretty one. A young man and a girl, both enveloped in cloaks, and huddled beneath the scanty protection of a cotton umbrella. She wears rubber overshoes; but he is in his dancing-pumps; and they are on their way, no doubt, to sonic cotillon- party, or subscription-ball at a dollar a head, refreshments included. Thus they struggle against the gloomy tempest, lured onward by a vision of festal splendor. But, ah! a most lamentable disaster. Bewildered by the red, blue, and yellow meteors, in an ...

— Beneath An Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words linked to "Sonic" : supersonic, sonic boom, hearable, audible, subsonic