ACOUSTICS

Acoustics

Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics technology may be called an acoustical engineer. The application of acoustics is present in almost all aspects of modern society with the most obvious being the audio and noise control industries.

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acoustics

Noun

See -ics regarding the treatment of such nouns as singular.

  1. The physical quality of a space for performing music.
    Until they discovered the non-contractual concrete slab under the stage floor, everyone at wondered, since the renovations, why the acoustics had changed.
  2. 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 .


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