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Webster 1913 Edition
Acoustic
A-cous′tic
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, Adj.
[F.
acoustique
, Gr. [GREEK] relating to hearing, fr. [GREEK] to hear.] Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.
Acoustic duct
, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear.
– Acoustic telegraph
, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone.
– Acoustic vessels
, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.
A-cous′tic
,Noun.
A medicine or agent to assist hearing.
Webster 1828 Edition
Acoustic
ACOUS'TIC
,Adj.
Pertaining to the ears, to the sense of hearing, or to the doctrine of sounds.
Acoustic duct, in anatomy, the meatus auditorius, or external passage of the ear.
Acoustic vessels, in ancient theaters, were brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like ab bell, used to propel the voice of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance; in some theaters at the distance of 400 feet.
Acoustic instrument, or auricular tube, called in popular language, a speaking trumpet.
Acoustics, or acousmatics, was a name given to such of the disciples of Pythagoras, as had not completed their five years probation.
Definition 2024
acoustic
acoustic
English
Alternative forms
- acoustick (obsolete)
Adjective
acoustic (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.
- (music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification, as an acoustic guitar or acoustic piano.
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Translations
pertaining to hearing or the science of sounds
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producing or produced without electrical amplification
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Noun
acoustic (plural acoustics)