Acoustic

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Look up acoustic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Acoustic may refer to:

In science:

• Acoustics, a branch of physics that studies sound
  • Musical acoustics, the branch of acoustics that studies the physics of music
• External acoustic meatus, another name for the ear canal
• Acoustic recording, a pre-microphone method of recording used, for instance, on the Graphophone

In music:

• Acoustic music, music that solely or primarily uses acoustic instruments
• An instrument used in acoustic music (see link above), such as:
  • Acoustic guitar, as opposed to electric guitar
  • Acoustic bass guitar, as opposed to electric bass guitar
• An album:
  • Acoustic (Deine Lakaien album), 1995
  • Acoustic (John Lennon album), 2004
  • Acoustic (Brandi Carlile album)
  • Acoustic (Everything but the Girl album)

• A record label:
  • Acoustic Disc
• Piano acoustics
• Acoustic fingerprint

Warfare

• Acoustic torpedo
• Acoustic signature

Other:

• Acoustic Control Corporation, a company which produced instrument amplifiers using Acoustic as a brand name
• Acoustic thermometry, observation of the oceans' climates using long-range acoustic instruments
• Acoustic cryptanalysis, in cryptography, a side channel attack which exploits sounds
• Acoustic (magazine)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.