sound structure
1sound structure — noun the admissible arrangement of sounds in words • Syn: ↑morphology, ↑syllable structure, ↑word structure • Derivationally related forms: ↑morphologic (for: ↑morphology) …
2Sound installation — (related to sound art and sound sculpture) is an intermedia and time based artform. It is an expansion of an art installation in the sense that it includes the sound element and therefore the time element. The main difference with a sound… …
3Sound mass — In contrast to more traditional musical textures, sound mass composition minimizes the importance of individual pitches in preference for texture, timbre, and dynamics as primary shapers of gesture and impact. Developed from the modernist tone… …
4Sound transmission class — (or STC) is an integer rating of how well a building partition attenuates airborne sound. In the USA, it is widely used to rate interior partitions, ceilings/floors, doors, windows and exterior wall configurations (see ASTM International… …
5Sound symbolism — or phonosemantics is a branch of linguistics and refers to the idea that vocal sounds have meaning. In particular, sound symbolism is the idea that phonemes (the written representations of sounds, transcribed between slashes like this: /b/) carry …
6Sound localization — refers to a listener s ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance. It may also refer to the methods in acoustical engineering to simulate the placement of an auditory cue in a virtual 3D space (see… …
7Sound poetry — is a form of literary or musical composition in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded at the expense of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; verse without words . By definition, sound poetry is intended primarily …
8Structure — is a fundamental and sometimes intangible notion covering the recognition, observation, nature, and stability of patterns and relationships of entities. From a child s verbal description of a snowflake, to the detailed scientific analysis of the… …
9Sound barrier (disambiguation) — Sound barrier may refer to:wqdnakldabzczncalkejfAS sjasbda *Sound barrier, the transition at transonic speeds from subsonic to supersonic travel, usually referring to flight. * The Sound Barrier , a British 1952 film directed by David Lean.… …
10sound reception — Introduction response of an organism s aural mechanism, the ear, to a specific form of energy change, or sound waves. Sound waves can be transmitted through gases, liquids, or solids, but the hearing function of each species is particularly …
