ultrasonic

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There are two tone settings - ultrasonic, which only dogs can hear and audible which humans can hear as well.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to acoustic frequencies above the range audible to the human ear, or above approximately 20,000 hertz.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or involving ultrasound.

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  • As I caught the beat of pinions and the near-ultrasonic keening--part sonar, part language -there came, hazy and unbidden, the image of Sarah on a white beach by the blue ocean, her hair falling in salt tangles as she stooped along the shore to collect fishbones and shells. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • These were ultrasonic-pulse devices designed to daze the birds long enough for endangered humans to either get to safety or use a firearm at point-blank range. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
  • Time to sideline that harvest-gold relic for a fridge with a hot new ultrasonic, fuzzy-logic, high-speed-spin, solar-powered, ozonated number? —  Omni: August 1993
  • Bert describes the pros and cons of many types including differential pressure across an orifice plate or venturi, positive displacement (turbine meters, oval gear meters), ultrasonic, vortex, and Coriolis mass flow. —  Emerson Process Experts
  • Proud Flesh film soundtrack on local label Ehse Records (made with Harrius partner Chiara Giovando), and an upcoming untitled sound installation at Chicago's Lincoln Conservatory that Sheppard describes as "sonic / ultrasonic composition for ferns" -- which, she assures, will include bits that are also audible to humans. —  Baltimore City Paper
 

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