Definition of Acoustic device

1. Noun. A device for amplifying or transmitting sound.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Acoustic Device

acoumetry
acount
acousma
acousmatamnesia
acousmatic
acoustic
acoustic agraphia
acoustic aphasia
acoustic area
acoustic buoy
acoustic cell
acoustic coupler
acoustic couplers
acoustic crest
acoustic delay line
acoustic device (current term)
acoustic emission
acoustic emissions
acoustic energy
acoustic enhancement
acoustic gramophone
acoustic guitar
acoustic guitarist
acoustic guitars
acoustic impedance
acoustic impedance tests
acoustic jamming
acoustic lemniscus
acoustic lens
acoustic maculae

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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