works deeds | performance of moral or religious acts, salvation by deeds, the reward for good works |
acoustic | a remedy for hearing loss or deafness |
acoustic delay line sonic delay line | a delay line based on the time of propagation of sound waves |
acoustic device | a device for amplifying or transmitting sound |
acoustic guitar | sound is not amplified by electrical means |
acoustic modem | a modem that converts electrical signals to telephone tones and back again |
acoustic storage | a storage device consisting of acoustic delay lines |
dye-works | a workshop where dyeing is done |
electro-acoustic transducer | a transducer that converts electrical to acoustic energy or vice versa |
gramophone acoustic gramophone | an antique record player, the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically |
plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
public works | structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use |
sewage system sewer system sewage works | facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage |
ship-towed longange acoustic detection system | a shipboard system consisting of an acoustic detection system that is towed behind the ship |
works workings | the internal mechanism of a device |
acoustic power sound pressure level | the physical intensity of sound |
acoustic radiation pressure | (acoustics) the pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a sound wave |
auditory meatus acoustic meatus ear canal auditory canal external auditory canal | either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane |
acoustic nerve auditory nerve vestibulocochlear nerve nervus vestibulocochlearis eighth cranial nerve | a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea |
works program | a program to provide jobs on public works paid for by government funds |
acoustic buoy | a buoy that can be heard (at night) |
sound wave acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
acoustic phenomenon | a physical phenomenon associated with the production or transmission of sound |
acoustic resistance acoustic impedance acoustic reactance | opposition to the flow of sound through a surface, acoustic resistance is the real component of acoustic impedance and acoustic reactance is the imaginary component |
sound spectrum acoustic spectrum | the distribution of energy as a function of frequency for a particular sound source |
projection acoustic projection sound projection | the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality, our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection, a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice |
auditory aphasia acoustic aphasia word deafness | an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss |
a whole shebang whole kit and caboodle kit and caboodle whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works works full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
acoustic acoustical | of or relating to the science of acoustics, acoustic properties of a hall |