Acoustic mine
a naval mine designed to be exploded by the vibration of the propeller of a p-ssing ship or by the sound of water along the hull.
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- Acoustic nerve
. either one of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the organs of hearing and from the semicircular c-n-ls to the brain. historical examples there would be no sound without the acoustic nerve and the brain. urania camille flammarion acoustic nerve: connects the auditory pits or other […]
- Acoustic neurilemoma
acoustic neurilemoma acoustic neurilemoma n. a benign neoplasm of the intracranial segment of the eighth cranial nerve. also called acoustic neuroma.
- Acoustic neuroma
noun a benign brain tumour of the vestibulocochlear nerve, one of the nerves connecting the ear to the brain, which can cause hearing and balance problems
- Acoustic ohm
the unit of acoustic impedance, equal to the impedance of a medium in which a sound pressure of one dyne per square centimeter produces a velocity of one centimeter per second.
- Acoustic phonetics
the branch of science dealing with the sounds of speech in terms of their frequency, duration, intensity, etc., especially as -n-lyzed by means of instruments like the sound spectrograph and the oscillograph. compare . a composite branch of physics and linguistics that treats sound proper as it relates to speech. the branch of phonetics dealing […]