unacoustic

Definitions

1. Having poor acoustic properties; not conducive to the projection of sound; tending to muffle or muddy sounds.
2. Lacking sound or sonority; silent or muffled.
3. Having a frequency outside the range of audible sounds.
4. Not acoustic; electronically generated or amplified.

Examples

“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.”

“This unacoustic vastness swallows the earth sounds and produces the effect of silence upon the soul.”

“Few are like⟳ the Scottish fiddle-maker Amaryllis once met who had spent a cheerful life making violins out of oak (an impossibly unacoustic wood) on the happy premise that birds sing⟳ more beautifully in oak trees.”

“No wonder⟳, for the pulpit had been placed in exactly the most inaudible situation, and the Hall, however well calculated for purposes of feeding, and holding examinations, was a most unacoustic place⟳ to speak⟳ in.”

“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?”

“There are times when people prevent⟳ life's music from penetrating. There are situations, historical, personal, sociological, and political as well as psychological, in which whole peoples feel⟳ imprisoned in a leaden, unacoustic atmosphere.”

“Within the "unacoustic" languages issuing from "matter⟳ [Material]," there may indeed be a "material community of things" and this may occasion usages such as sculpture or painting that translate⟳ into "an infinitely higher language" still of the same specific material sphere.”

“When Owen Glendower sports various reverberations that lack sonorousness, such unacoustic micro-events do not fall⟳ into the work⟳ like⟳ random meteorites whose trajectories happen⟳ to cross the orbit of the writer's imagination. Instead the unacoustic reverberation is emitted from the work's core.”

“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.”

“We were mostly concerned with the reflection and refraction of shocks in the unacoustic domain; we found that entirely new forms of these processes, connected with extraordinary pressures and production of vortex sheets, exist⟳ there.”

“Our next respondent agrees with the previous opinion but also points out interest⟳ in using the computer for synthesizing original 'unacoustic' sounds.”

“Leave⟳ the backpackers behind and join⟳ Saigon's student population to see⟳ the seriously un-acoustic local rock bands performing predominantly American covers every night in this heaving live⟳ music hub at the end⟳ of a narrow alleyway.”

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