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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science of the interaction of acoustic and optical phenomena.
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- noun physics The
science that studies thediffraction oflight byultrasonic sound .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[acoust(ic) + optics.]
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acousto- + optics
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