sound-waves

As his awareness slipped away into blackness, he whispered simply “no drugs”, a series of sound-waves the doctors chirped and clicked about for some time, trying to decipher what these noises could possibly mean.

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We no longer have to contend with what used to seem mysterious in the causal theory of perception: a series of light-waves or sound-waves or what not suddenly producing a mental event apparently totally different from themselves in character.

Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

The artist in so-called silences merely registers certain more or less delicate sound-waves flowing in easy contours, which others have not the leisure to distinguish.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Then the Yo-Yo blew up, very quietly, as things do where there is no air to carry shock - and sound-waves, but very brilliantly.

Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

"Then I suppose these sound-waves, in other words the words one speaks, run out of the end of these wires into the atmosphere?"

Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser

The magnets convey the sound-waves in the form of electrical waves, along wires out to the tip of each wing, where the wires hang down a little way.

Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser

For in the ear the sound-waves are first of all taken over by the so-called ossicles, three small bones in the middle ear which, when examined with the Goethean eye, appear to be

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

On speaking into the mouth-piece of the funnel, the sound-waves occasion undulations in the column of hot air which are communicated to the thermo-battery, and in this manner corresponding differences are produced in the currents in the wires leading to the receiving instrument.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

The sound-waves broke on his sensorium as ripples break on a granite coast.

On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

When the sound-waves beat upon this thin membrane, it is thrown into vibration, reproducing in its movements the character of the air-vibrations that have fallen upon it.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell