"acoustics" meaning in English

See acoustics in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

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), akustika (Indonesian), 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)
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  2. The properties of a space that affect how sound carries. Tags: uncountable
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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
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Synonyms: acousticks [obsolete]

Alternative forms

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