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What is the difference between catacoustica and acoustics?

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catacoustica

Not English

Catacoustica has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

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.

    Related terms

    * acoustic * mechanical wave