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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Acoustics \A*cous"tics\ (#; 277), n. [Names of sciences in -ics, as acoustics, mathematics, etc., are usually treated as singular. See {-ics}.] (Physics.) 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. Note: The science is by some writers, divided, into diacoustics, which explains the properties of sounds coming directly from the ear; and catacoustica which treats of reflected sounds or echoes. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: acoustics n : the study of the physical properties of sound
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