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telacoustic

telacoustic adjective: relating to sound produced in one place but heard in another.

Adjective

telacoustic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to sound produced in one place but heard in another.
    • The best known or most generally recognized instances of telacoustic phenomena are the "raps" alleged by Spiritualists to be of very frequent occurrence in their experience, and almost invariably ascribed by them to the direct agency of the spirits of deceased persons.1893, Light, volume 13, page 447
    • The idrovamolan with its telescopic, telacoustic, and telemagnetic powers came to their assistance in this difficulty. By its help parents and proparents were able to bring the youths into the very presence of the loathed deceit without submitting them to the chance of contagion.2025, Ron Miller, Alan Orloff, Tom Milani, Black Cat Weekly #204, page 961

Origin of telacoustic

tele- + acoustic

Questions about telacoustic

What does telacoustic mean?
Telacoustic means relating to sound produced in one place but heard in another.
What part of speech is telacoustic?
Telacoustic is an adjective.

Words near telacoustic in the dictionary

  1. Tel.
  2. tela
  3. tela choroidea
  4. Telabastagan
  5. telacebec
  6. telacoustic
  7. telae
  8. telaesthesia
  9. telakucha
  10. telalgia
  11. telalginite

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