English
Pronunciation
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Noun
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See -ics regarding the treatment of such nouns as singular.
- The quality of a space for doing 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
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.
Related terms
acoustic
mechanical wave
Translations
trans-top|a quality of a space for doing music
Finnish: t+|fi|akustiikka
French: acoustique f
German: t-|de|Akustik|f
Italian: t+|it|acustica
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Japanese: t|ja|scJpan|��|tronky�
Russian: t|ru|ак���ика|f|tr=akústika
Spanish: acústica f
Swedish: t+|sv|akustik|c
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trans-top|physics: a science of sounds
Finnish: t+|fi|akustiikka
French: acoustique f
German: t-|de|Akustik|f
Italian: t+|it|acustica
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Japanese: t|ja|scJpan|é�³é�¿å¦|tronkyÅ�gaku
Russian: t|ru|ак���ика|f|tr=akústika
Spanish: acústica f
Swedish: t+|sv|akustik|c
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ttbc|Croatian: t+|hr|akustika|f
ttbc|Dutch: akoestiek m
ttbc|Interlingua: acustica
ttbc|Portuguese: acústica f
ttbc|Slovene: t+|sl|akustika|f
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