acoustics
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- acousticks (obsolete)
Etymology [edit]
From French acoustique, from Ancient Greek ἀκουστικός, from ἀκούω (“to hear”).
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
acoustics (uncountable)
See -ics regarding the treatment of such nouns as singular.
- The physical quality of a space for performing music.
- Until they discovered the non-contractual concrete slab under the stage floor, everyone at Carnegie Hall wondered, since the renovations, why the acoustics had changed.
- (physics) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws.
- Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. - Sir John Herschel.
Usage notes [edit]
- The science was previously divided by some writers into diacoustics, which explains the properties of sounds coming directly from (sic! Webster) the ear; and catacoustica, which treats of reflected sounds or echoes. This division is now obsolete.
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Translations [edit]
quality of a space for doing music
physics: a science of sounds
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