| sound ranging | locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions |
| sound reproduction | the reproduction of sound |
accelerator particle accelerator
atom smasher | a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles |
audio system
sound system | a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound |
fiberboard
fibreboard
particle board | wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets |
hi-fi
high fidelity sound system | equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity |
| particle detector | a chamber in which particles can be made visible |
| sound bow | contact (the part of a bell) against which the clapper strikes |
| sound camera | a movie camera that records sounds in synchrony with the visual images |
| sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
| sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
sound recording
audio recording
audio | a recording of acoustic signals |
| sound spectrograph | a spectrograph for acoustic spectra |
| sound truck | a truck equipped with a loudspeaker and used for advertising |
judgment
judgement
sound judgment
sound judgement
perspicacity | the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions |
duality
wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
| sound | the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause, the sound of rain on the roof, the beautiful sound of music |
| sound property | an attribute of sound |
echo
reverberation
sound reflection
replication | the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves, she could hear echoes of her own footsteps |
acoustic power
sound pressure level | the physical intensity of sound |
auditory perception
sound perception | the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon |
sound
auditory sensation | the subjective sensation of hearing something, he strained to hear the faint sounds |
| sound effect | an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play |
particle physics
high-energy physics
high energy physics | the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
morphology sound structure
syllable structure
word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
| sound law | a law describing sound changes in the history of a language |
audio
sound | the audible part of a transmitted signal, they always raise the audio for commercials |
| particle | a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs |
phonetic alphabet
sound alphabet | an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech |
phone
speech sound
sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
vowel
vowel sound | a speech sound made with the vocal tract open |
stop consonant
stop
occlusive
plosive consonant
plosive speech sound
plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
sonant
voiced sound | a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords |
| sound bite | a very short speech, usually on radio or television |
sound wave
acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
| sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event, the sound awakened them |
| alpha particle | a positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom, emitted from natural or radioactive isotopes |
antitauon
tau-plus particle | an antilepton of very great mass |
baryon
heavy particle | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions, a hadron with a baryon number of |
| beta particle | a high-speed electron or positron emitted in the decay of a radioactive isotope |
elementary particle
fundamental particle | (physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom, regarded as constituents of all matter |
J particle
psi particle | a neutral meson with a large mass |
kaon
kappa-meson
k-meson
K particle | an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision |
lambda particle
lambda hyperon | an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin |
| Long Island Sound | a sound between Long Island and Connecticut |
particle
subatomic particle | a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions |
| Puget Sound | an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State |
| Queen Charlotte Sound | an inlet of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia |
| sound | a large ocean inlet or deep bay, the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast |
strait
sound | a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water |