acoustic

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  1. adjective Of or relating to sound, the sense of hearing, or the science of sound.
  2. adjective Designed to carry sound or to aid in hearing.
  3. adjective Designed to absorb or control sound: acoustic tile.
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  • Vince came back onstage with an acoustic, and they did Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away). —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • Capturing the kind of explosive dual acoustic-electric transcendence that the genre hasn't seen since George Benson and Earl Klugh's classic 1987 Collaboration, the 11-tracks of Foreign Exchange tap deeply into Antoine's strength for irresistible melodic anthems and Brown's love for rock and funk.
  • Jimmy Dludlu - acoustic guitar; Stewart Levine - clarinet; Arthur Tshabalala: electric piano, —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • Having built over 150 electro-acoustic contraptions, Tim Kaiser has truly mapped out his own musical frontier. —  False 45th
  • Cobain initially says the record will be entirely acoustic, but 20 minutes later in the same interview, he suggests that the songs will be similar to Chicago art-punk band Shellac's recently released —  Spin Magazine Online -
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  1. Greek akoustikos, pertaining to hearing, from akouein, to hear; see kous- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly acoustick, acoustique, from French acoustique = Spanish Portuguese Italian acustico, from New Latin acusticus, from Greek ἀκουστικός, relating to hearing, from ἀκουστός, heard, audible, from ἀκούειν, hear; cf. ἀκοή, hearing, κοεῖν, perceive; root prob. *κου, *κοF, *σκοF = Latin cavere, heed, cautus, heedful (see caution), = Goth, usskawjan, take heed, = Anglo-Saxon sceāwian, look at, English show, q. v. The regular English form would be *acustic: see acou-.
 

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