Acoustic meaning

ə-ko͝o'stĭk
Designed to absorb or control sound.

Acoustic tile.

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The definition of acoustic is music that is played without the use of electronic amplification equipment.

An example of the word acoustic is a song in which only a flute is used.

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Of or relating to sound, the sense of hearing, or the science of sound.
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Designed to carry sound or to aid in hearing.
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Of or being an instrument that does not produce or enhance sound electronically.

An acoustic guitar; an acoustic bass.

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Being a performance that features such instruments.

Opened the show with an acoustic set.

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An acoustic instrument.
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Having to do with hearing or with sound as it is heard.
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Of acoustics.
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Employing such an instrument or instruments.
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Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.
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(music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification, as an acoustic guitar or acoustic piano.
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(medicine) A medicine or other agent to assist hearing.
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Acoustic is defined as the sense of hearing.

An example of the word acoustic is to refer to your ability to hear sound.

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Designating a musical instrument, usually a string instrument, whose sounds are not generated electronically.
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Origin of acoustic

Greek akoustikos pertaining to hearing from akouein to hear kous- in Indo-European roots

Sentence Examples

  • Its acoustic properties are said to be almost perfect, and it has been named "the Auditorium."

  • The acoustic properties of the theatre are extraordinarily good, a speaker in the orchestra being heard throughout the auditorium without raising his voice.

  • The acoustic quality of a room may be improved by breaking up the smooth surfaces by curtains or by arrangement of furniture.

  • The line of circuit passed through the secondary of the induction coil I to the line, from that to the telephone T at the receiving station, 'See Journal of the Telegraph, New York, April 1877; Philadelphia Times, 9th July 1877; and Scientific American, August 181 This term was used by Wheatstone in 1827 for an acoustic apparatus intended to convert very feeble into audible sounds; see his Scientific Papers, p. 32.

  • His equally careful experiments on various acoustic instruments also resulted in giving to his country the most serviceable system of fog-signals known to maritime powers.

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