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Mach number

Mach number noun: the ratio of the speed of a body to that of sound in the surrounding medium.

Noun

Mach number (uncountable)

  1. The ratio of the speed of a body to that of sound in the surrounding medium.

Mach number meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Thai

Mach number in Tamil

மாக்கெண், மாக் எண்

Mach number in Kannada

ratio — see also Mach
ಮ್ಯಾಕ್ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ myāk saṅkhye

Mach number in Thai

ratio — see also Mach
เลขมัค

Origin of Mach number

After physicist Ernst Mach.

Questions about Mach number

What does Mach number mean?
Mach number means the ratio of the speed of a body to that of sound in the surrounding medium.
What is Mach number in Tamil?
Mach number in Tamil is மாக்கெண், மாக் எண். See Mach number meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Mach number?
Mach number is a noun.

Words near Mach number in the dictionary

  1. Mach cone
  2. Mach diamond
  3. Mach diamonds
  4. Mach front
  5. Mach fronts
  6. Mach number
  7. Mach stem
  8. Mach stems
  9. Mach tuck
  10. Mach tucked
  11. Mach tucking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Mach number (page history and authors); mach number (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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