"acoustics" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈkuː.stɪks/ Audio: en-us-acoustics.ogg Forms: acoustics See -ics regarding the treatment of such nouns as singular. [canonical]
Etymology: From acoustic + -s. Etymology templates: {{af|en|acoustic|-s}} acoustic + -s Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} acoustics (uncountable)
  1. (physics) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Physics, Acoustics Translations (the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws): акустика (akustika) (Bulgarian), acústica [feminine] (Catalan), 声学 (shēngxué) (Chinese Mandarin), akustika [feminine] (Czech), akoestiek [feminine] (Dutch), akustiko (Esperanto), akustiikka (Finnish), acoustique [feminine] (French), acústica [feminine] (Galician), აკუსტიკა (aḳusṭiḳa) (Georgian), Akustik [feminine] (German), ακουστική (akoustikí) [feminine] (Greek), akusztika (Hungarian), hangtan (english: easier to understand but ambiguous with phonetics) (Hungarian), akustiko (Ido), fuaimeolaíocht [feminine] (Irish), acústaic [feminine] (Irish), acustica (Italian), 音響学 (onkyōgaku) (Japanese), akustika [feminine] (Latvian), akustik (Malay), kaji bunyi (Malay), mātai oro (Maori), akustyka [feminine] (Polish), acústica [feminine] (Portuguese), аку́стика (akústika) [feminine] (Russian), fuaimearrachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), аку̀стика [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), akùstika [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), acústica [feminine] (Spanish), akustik [common-gender] (Swedish), tunugan (Tagalog), สวนศาสตร์ (sà-wá-ná-sàat) (Thai), âm học (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-acoustics-en-noun-Zkh3ouQJ Disambiguation of Acoustics: 64 30 6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ics, English terms suffixed with -s Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 48 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 52 44 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 42 5 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ics: 48 47 5 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -s: 48 47 5 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws': 98 2
  2. The properties of a space that affect how sound carries. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-acoustics-en-noun-hiyUffWE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ics, English terms suffixed with -s Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 48 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 52 44 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ics: 48 47 5 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -s: 48 47 5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: acousticks [obsolete] Related terms: acoustic

Noun

IPA: /əˈkuː.stɪks/ Audio: en-us-acoustics.ogg
Etymology: From acoustic + -s. Etymology templates: {{af|en|acoustic|-s}} acoustic + -s Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} acoustics
  1. plural of acoustic Tags: form-of, plural Form of: acoustic
    Sense id: en-acoustics-en-noun-fmT08jIs
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: acousticks [obsolete]

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1831, John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green: Paternoster Row, and John Taylor, Upper Gower Street, page 248",
          "text": "\"Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very consderable branch of physics, and one which has been cultivated from the earliest ages.",
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        }
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        "physics"
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          "text": "The acoustics in the opera house gave the whole concert a spooky sound.",
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        }
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        "The properties of a space that affect how sound carries."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/əˈkuː.stɪks/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-acoustics.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/94/En-us-acoustics.ogg/En-us-acoustics.ogg.mp3",
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "akustika",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "акустика"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acústica"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shēngxué",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "声学"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "akustika"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "akoestiek"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "akustiko"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "akustiikka"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acoustique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acústica"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "aḳusṭiḳa",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "აკუსტიკა"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Akustik"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "akoustikí",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ακουστική"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "akusztika"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
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      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "akustiko"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fuaimeolaíocht"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acústaic"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "acustica"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "onkyōgaku",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "音響学"
    },
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      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "akustika"
    },
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      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "akustik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
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    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "mātai oro"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "akustyka"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acústica"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "akústika",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "аку́стика"
    },
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fuaimearrachd"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "аку̀стика"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "akùstika"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acústica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "akustik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "tunugan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sà-wá-ná-sàat",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "สวนศาสตร์"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws",
      "word": "âm học"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acoustics"
}

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}

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