Acoustics: alternatives and connections

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Acoustics

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws.

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Harmonics 76% connected

The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

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Phonetics 76% connected

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

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Physics 76% connected

The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it…

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