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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A longitudinal pressure wave of audible or inaudible sound.
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- noun physics the
longitudinal wave ofpressure that istransmitted through anyplastic material ;audible sound.
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- noun (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound
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