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Acoustics
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Acoustics has 1 sense
- acoustics(n = noun.cognition) Array - the study of the physical properties of sound; Array is a kind of physical science, physics
has particulars: harmonics, phonetics
Derived forms adjective acoustic1, adjective acoustical1, noun acoustician1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Acoustics, n. [Names of sciences in -ics, as, acoustics, mathematics, etc., are usually treated as singular. See -ics.].
The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. [1913 Webster]
" The science is, by some writers, divided, into diacoustics, which explains the properties of sounds coming directly from the ear; and catacoustica, which treats of reflected sounds or echoes."
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"Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics."
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THESAURUS
Acoustics
Newtonian physics, acoustical engineer, acoustician, aerophysics, applied physics, astrophysics, basic conductor physics, biophysics, chemical physics, cryogenics, crystallography, cytophysics, electron physics, electronics, electrophysics, geophysics, macrophysics, mathematical physics, mechanics, medicophysics, microphysics, natural philosophy, natural science, nuclear physics, optics, philosophy, phonics, physic, physical chemistry, physical science, physicochemistry, physicomathematics, physics, psychophysics, radiation physics, radioacoustics, radionics, solar physics, solid-state physics, statics, stereophysics, theoretical physics, thermodynamics, zoophysicsROGET THESAURUS
Acoustics
Sound
N sound, noise, strain, accent, twang, intonation, tone, cadence, sonorousness, audibility, resonance, voice, aspirate, ideophone, rough breathing, acoustics, phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonetism, sounding, soniferous, sonorous, sonorific, resonant, audible, distinct, stertorous, phonetic, phonic, phonocamptic, a thousand trills and quivering sounds, forensis strepitus.
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