acoustics
noun/əˈkuː.stɪks/
Etymology From acoustic + -s.
1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws.
- "Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very consderable branch of physics, and one which has been cultivated from the earliest ages.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:
2
The properties of a space that affect how sound carries.
- The acoustics in the opera house gave the whole concert a spooky sound.
- Derived terms
- aeroacoustics, archaeoacoustics, bioacoustics, ecoacoustics, electroacoustics, hydroacoustics, ionoacoustics, magnetoacoustics, microacoustics, noraconitine, otoacoustics, photoacoustics, phytoacoustics, polyacoustics, psychoacoustics, quantum acoustics, radioacoustics, thermoacoustics
- Related terms
- acoustic