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Acoustic vs Electroacoustics - What's the difference?

acoustic | electroacoustics |

As nouns the difference between acoustic and electroacoustics

is that acoustic is a medicine or other agent to assist hearing while electroacoustics is the science of the interaction and interconversion of electric and acoustic phenomena.

As an adjective acoustic

is pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.

acoustic

English

Alternative forms

* acoustick (obsolete)

Adjective

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  • Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.
  • (music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification, as an acoustic guitar or acoustic piano.

    • Derived terms

    * acoustically

    Derived terms

    * acoustics: the science of sound * acoustic duct: the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. * acoustic guitar * acoustic telegraph: a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone, notably used on ships * acoustic vessels: brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) A medicine or other agent to assist hearing.

    • electroacoustics

    English

    Noun

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  • (physics) the science of the interaction and interconversion of electric and acoustic phenomena