"speed of sound" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (physics) The speed at which sound is propagated through some medium under specified conditions. Wikipedia link: speed of sound Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Physics Related terms: sound barrier, Mach number, subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic, speed of light Translations (speed at which sound is propagated): spoed van klank (Afrikaans), سرعَة الصوت [feminine] (Arabic), скорост на звука (skorost na zvuka) (Bulgarian), velocitat del so [feminine] (Catalan), 音速 (yīnsù) (Chinese Mandarin), rychlost zvuku (Czech), lydens hastighed (Danish), geluidssnelheid [feminine] (Dutch), äänen nopeus (Finnish), vitesse du son [feminine] (French), ბგერის სიჩქარე (bgeris sičkare) (Georgian), Schallgeschwindigkeit [feminine] (German), ταχύτητα του ήχου (tachýtita tou íchou) [feminine] (Greek), מהירות הקול (mehirót ha-kól) [feminine] (Hebrew), hangsebesség (Hungarian), velocità del suono [feminine] (Italian), 音速 (onsoku) (Japanese), 음속 (eumsok) (alt: 音速) (Korean), garso greitis (Lithuanian), брзина на звук (brzina na zvuk) [feminine] (Macedonian), дууны хурд (duuny xurd) (Mongolian), prędkość dźwięku (Polish), velocidade do som [feminine] (Portuguese), viteza sunetului [feminine] (Romanian), ско́рость зву́ка (skórostʹ zvúka) [feminine] (Russian), брзина звука [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), brzina zvuka [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), rýchlosť zvuku (Slovak), hitrost zvoka (Slovene), velocidad del sonido [feminine] (Spanish), ljudhastighet [common-gender] (Swedish), ความเร็วเสียง (kwaam reo sĭang) (Thai)
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      "word": "ско́рость зву́ка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "speed at which sound is propagated",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "брзина звука"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "speed at which sound is propagated",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brzina zvuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "speed at which sound is propagated",
      "word": "rýchlosť zvuku"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "speed at which sound is propagated",
      "word": "hitrost zvoka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "speed at which sound is propagated",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "velocidad del sonido"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "speed at which sound is propagated",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ljudhastighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kwaam reo sĭang",
      "sense": "speed at which sound is propagated",
      "word": "ความเร็วเสียง"
    }
  ],
  "word": "speed of sound"
}

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