Alternative spellings

  • soune (obsolete), sowne (obsolete)

Adjective

sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

Positive sound

Comparative sounder

Superlative soundest

  1. Healthy.
    He was safe and sound.
  2. Complete, solid, or secure.
    Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
  3. (British, slang) Good or a good thing.
    "How are you?" - "I'm sound."
    That's a sound track you're playing.

Derived terms
terms derived from sound (adjective)

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Fri Aug 14 10:31:28 2009

Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.

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Fri Sep 4 18:30:30 2009

What determines the sound of engine makes when using engine-brake on motorcycle?
Q. When you accelerate the engine makes a sound, but when you use the engine-brake, is another sound. What determines this sound? I'm talking about something like this: I get to let's say 4000rpm and then I release the throtle without pulling the clunch. That is not indicated? It doesn't work like car engine?
Asked by SoulLess - Tue Mar 4 11:28:06 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Way too complicated a matter to discuss in accurate & complete detail here. Accel and Deccel are 2 entirely different modes,,practically "alternate universes" In Accel,,,the Intake Velocity is very High and Voluminous. Combustion Chamber Pressures are High ,,and Rising by the RPM. Exhaust is Pressurized to the point it constitutes a Flow Restriction,,,Likewise on Intake Side'sVaccum being restricted by mass volume demand. Intake Gulp Frequency is communicated all the way thru to altmosphere On DECCEL,,Air Intake is almost NIL,,, Carb & Downstream Intake tract is under Extreme High Vacuum while Carb Intake is under a near NO Flow/Atmospheric Pressure condition. It's virtually Isolated from atmosphere Combustion is almost NIL,,hence… [cont.]
Answered by TXm42 - Tue Mar 4 14:56:13 2008

Who invented the first machine to record sound?
Q. As you recently discovered we have to rethink the earliest history of sound recording. what was the name of the machine he invented? how was the sound stored? Why did it take so long for us to hear the sound played back? did the inventor ever get to hear the sound played back?
Asked by neobioexplorer - Sat Apr 19 18:16:52 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The infamous Harry Microphone in 1836. ...Don't bother looking him up. I'm full of sh.it.
Answered by Oliver T6 - Sat Apr 19 18:24:44 2008

How do I improve the sound quality of my iPod while in the car?
Q. I have the newest iPod Nano 8G and I currently use an AUX jack located on the front of my sony stereo. I just plug the cord into my headphone jack and run it to the AUX jack. While the sound quality isn't bad so to say, some songs sound worse than others and I find myself constantly messing with settings. Anyone have any suggestions to improve my sound quality?
Asked by A - Tue Jun 9 11:24:38 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. You won't really find a better sounding connection than a direct AUX-in plug. It might be more convenient if the AUX was on the back of the head unit, and you could hide the wire, but sound quality wouldn't change. Your only room for improvement in sound quality is to look at what bitrate your MP3's are encoded into. If they're only 128k MP3's, you'd get better sound out of 192K or higher. I always encode my own into 192, and if I'm downloading, some come encoded as high as 320K. Higher bitrates also mean larger filesizes though... 192 isn't all that much bigger, but 320K files can start taking up a lot of space. Also, encoding into VBR (variable bitr ate) can get better results than CBR (continuous bit rate)... by allowing the device… [cont.]
Answered by travis m - Tue Jun 9 11:37:28 2009

From Yahoo Answer Search: "sound"
Sun Sep 6 19:27:30 2009

Sound is the vibration of matter, as perceived by the sense of hearing. Unwanted or annoying sound is often called noise.

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  • Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
    • John Cage, "Communication", the third of the Composition as a Process lectures given in Darmstadt in 1958 and published in Silence. Many of Cage's works use sounds traditionally regarded as unmusical (radios not tuned to any particular station, for instance): he really did believe that the sound of a truck and the sounds made in a factory had just as much musical worth as the sounds made in a music school. There is also a suggestion expressed in the quote that in order to determine the artistic worth of something, it is necessary to examine the context in which it exists.
  • A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.
  • Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
    • Eduard Hanslick, quoted by Wolfgang Sandberger (1996) in the liner notes to the Juilliard String Quartet's Intimate Letters. Sony Classical SK 66840.
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I have a computer that claims to support 5.1 channel surround, but the 3 jacks are stereo input, output and microphone. Will these turn into the three.

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