unacoustic

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having poor acoustic properties; not conducive to the projection of sound; tending to muffle or muddy sounds.
    — The application of staccato chords has to be strictly limited in unacoustic places, but in resonant buildings, staccato chords, used judiciously, have a very fine effect, as they evoke the echoes from the building in a more effective way than a long sustained chord, however promptly released.
  2. Lacking sound or sonority; silent or muffled.
    — The deaf-mutes from a separate community among the hearing people. The most interesting question in their psychology is: What is their conception of the outer world? Of an unacoustic, mute world?
  3. Having a frequency outside the range of audible sounds.
    — These results deserve a brief discussion, because they contain the first indications about the "unacoustic" effects in shock reflection : That is, the deviations which shocks of finite strength present from the "acoustic" laws, which hold asymptotically for shocks of infinitesimal strength.
  4. Not acoustic; electronically generated or amplified.
    — Our next respondent agrees with the previous opinion but also points out interest in using the computer for synthesizing original 'unacoustic' sounds.

词形变化

more unacoustic comparative most unacoustic superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō
Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor.
Medieval Latin acousticusbor.
English acoustic
English unacoustic
From un- + acoustic.
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