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Definition: Acoustic Wave |
Acoustic WaveNoun1. (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | = sound wave. (references) |
Mining | A. The waves that contain sound energy and by the motion of which sound energy is transmitted in air, in water, or in the ground. The wave may be described in terms of change of pressure, of particle displacement, or of density b. Used increasingly to study the physical properties of rocks and composition of gases. Investigations may be made both in situ and in thelaboratory. (references) |
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Synonym: Acoustic WaveSynonym: sound wave (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Acoustic Wave |
| English words defined with "acoustic wave": audio, audio frequency ♦ Rayleigh disk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "acoustic wave": acoustic-radiation pressure, anti-noise barriers ♦ characteristic acoustic impedance of a medium ♦ Electron Acoustic Wave ♦ Ion acoustic wave ♦ sound absorbing shields, sound channel, sound probe, sound resistant screens. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bose acoustic wave | 27 |
surface acoustic wave | 20 |
acoustic wave | 11 |
acoustic wave music system | 4 |
acoustic wave system | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "acoustic wave"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | lydbølge (sound wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geluidsgolf (sound wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | akustinen pinta-aalto (acoustic surface wave, surface acoustic wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | onde sonore, onde sonique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Schallwelle (sound wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηχητικό κύμα (sound wave), ακουστικό κύμα (sound wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave Sono stati introdotti nel mercato filtri ad onda acustica superficiale(SAW)destinati ai telefoni cellulari a stan-dard statunitensi.Realizzati su substrato monocristallino in contenitore ceramico con impedenza di 50 W.......), onda acustica superficiale (acoustic surface wave, surface acoustic wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acousticay aveway onda sonora (sound wave, soundwave), onda sónica (sound wave). (various references) onda sonora (sound wave, soundwave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-o-s-t-u-v-w" | |
-2 letters: accusative. | |
-3 letters: causative. | |
-4 letters: acoustic, coactive. | |
-5 letters: acetous, actives, ascetic, aviates, avocets, caustic, caveats, costive, coteaus, cowiest, octaves, outvies, saccate, vacates, waviest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 6F 75 73 74 69 63 57 61 76 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01010111 01100001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c o u s t i c   W a v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 006F 0075 0073 0074 0069 0063 0057 0061 0076 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3569818785867569257678871 |
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