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The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

ected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

Of or pertaining to acoustics.

One versed in acoustics. Tyndall.

That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics. Hutton.

That branch of acoustics which treats of reflested sounds; catacoustics.

The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.

. A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics.

sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes. -- Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loor, n., 5.

Singing fish (Zoöl.), a California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus). -- Singing flame (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The apparatus is called also chemical harmonicon. -- Singing master, a man who…

often situated beneath the belly, but sometimes beneath the throat. -- Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loop, n., 5.