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Audio vs Acoustics - What's the difference?

audio | acoustics |

As nouns the difference between audio and acoustics

is that audio is audio while acoustics is the physical quality of a space for performing music.

audio

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or relating to audible sound.
  • Of or relating to the broadcasting or reproduction of sound, especially high-fidelity reproduction.
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A sound, or a sound signal
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 17, author=The New York Times, title=Art in Review, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios , like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger. }}

    See also

    * video ----

    acoustics

    English

    Alternative forms

    * acousticks (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-) See -ics regarding the treatment of such nouns as singular.
  • The physical quality of a space for performing music.
  • Until they discovered the non-contractual concrete slab under the stage floor, everyone at wondered, since the renovations, why the acoustics had changed.
  • (physics) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws.
  • Acoustics , then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. - Sir .

    Usage notes

    * The science was previously divided by some writers into diacoustics, which explains the properties of sounds coming directly from (sic! Webster) the ear; and catacoustica, which treats of reflected sounds or echoes. This division is now obsolete.