acoustics

Acoustics is the science of mechanical waves in all matter. It examines how sound, vibration, and ultrasound are produced, controlled, and perceived by sensors or living things as they reflect, absorb, and refract through the environment
Intangible academic_discipline Q82811
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acoustics

Summary

acoustics is an academic discipline[1]. acoustics ranks in the top 10% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,455 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • acoustics's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • acoustics is a type of physics[4].
  • acoustics's Commons category is recorded as Acoustics[5].
  • acoustics's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Acoustics[6].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[7].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[12].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[13].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • acoustics's described by source is recorded as Q131308011[15].
  • acoustics's is the study of is recorded as sound[16].
  • acoustics's practiced by is recorded as acoustician[17].
  • acoustics's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].
  • acoustics's Wikimedia outline is recorded as outline of acoustics[19].
  • acoustics's P10203 is recorded as 3102[20].

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Definition and Type

acoustics's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3]. acoustics is a type of physics[4].

Why It Matters

acoustics ranks in the top 10% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,455 views/month).[2] acoustics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] acoustics is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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  1. [3] . Q1227538. wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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