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diacoustic

diacoustic adjective: relating to diacoustics.

Adjective

diacoustic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to diacoustics.
    • The archbishop of Armagh (in Nᵒ 156, Philos. Trans.) compares hearing with vision; and as the latter is divided into direct, reflected, and refracted vision, so in like manner he divides the former into three parts, and considers not only direct and reflected sounds, which have been long known, but...1809, Charles Hutton, Richard Pearson, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, page 471
    • The only hypothesis left therefore is that of diacoustic refraction; by which the sound-beam from one origin is bent and lifted over the observer, while from an opposite origin the refraction is in a reversed direction; and such a quality in the moving air is referable to no other observed...1880, William Bower Taylor, A Memoir of Joseph Henry: A Sketch of His Scientific Work, page 353

Origin of diacoustic

From dia- + acoustic.

Questions about diacoustic

What does diacoustic mean?
Diacoustic means relating to diacoustics.
What part of speech is diacoustic?
Diacoustic is an adjective.

Words near diacoustic in the dictionary

  1. diaconiology
  2. diaconnotative
  3. Diacono
  4. Diaconos
  5. diacope
  6. diacoustic
  7. diacoustics
  8. diacranterian
  9. diacridine
  10. diacridines
  11. diacrises

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