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Definition of Acoustic device
1. Noun. A device for amplifying or transmitting sound.
Generic synonyms: Device
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acoustic Device
Literary usage of Acoustic device
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Operator's Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Handbook: A Complete Treatise on by Victor Hugo Laughter (1918)
"Resonance, acoustic device: See Device, Acoustic Resonance. 103. Resonance,
Sharpness of: See Tuning, Sharpness of. 104. Signaling, Duplex: See Duplex ..."
2. Colloids in Biology and Medicine by Heinrich Bechhold (1919)
"Since it is difficult to observe the melting of the jelly and the thermometer at
the same time, the authors use an acoustic device (metronome) which is ..."
3. The Military Dictionary (1987)
"It may be active directional or nondirectional, or it may be passive directional
or nondirectional. sonobuoy—(NATO) An acoustic device, used mainly for the ..."
4. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, 1999 edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"... a hand-held, acoustic device for detection of concealed weapons; a computer-based
training tool for bomb technicians; a concrete- penetrating, ..."
5. The Organ: Its Compass, Tablature, and Short and Incomplete Octaves by John Watson Warman (1884)
"... certainty of their deepest ones' being of real usej and thus no resort to the
acoustic device—generally doubtful in its result—will ever be 'necessari/. ..."
6. Beyond the Golden Gate: Oceanography, Geology, Biology, and Environmental by Herman A. Karl (2001)
"An acoustic device that emits sound signals to the side of a ship's track; these
signals are reflected back from the sea floor, revealing its character. ..."
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