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ABSOLUTE PITCH: See PERFECT PITCH.

ABSORPTION

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT

ACCELEROMETER: See TRANSDUCER.

ACOASMA

ACOUSTIC

ACOUSTIC DESIGN: See SOUNDSCAPE DESIGN.

ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY: See SOUNDSCAPE ECOLOGY.

ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK

ACOUSTIC HORIZON

ACOUSTICIAN

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE

ACOUSTIC PROFILE: See ACOUSTIC SPACE.

ACOUSTIC RADIATION

ACOUSTICS

ACOUSTIC SHADOW: See SOUND SHADOW.

ACOUSTIC SPACE

ACOUSTIC TRAUMA

ACTUALITY: See ORAL HISTORY.

ADAPTATION

ADDITIVE SYNTHESIS: See FOURIER SYNTHESIS, SOUND SYNTHESIS.

AIR CONDUCTION: See BONE CONDUCTION, CONDUCTIVE HEARING LOSS.

ALLOPHONE

ALTERNATING CURRENT

AMBIENCE

AMBIENT NOISE: See AMBIENCE.

AMBIENT NOISE LEVEL

AMPLIFICATION

AMPLIFIER

AMPLITUDE

AMPLITUDE MODULATION

ANACUSIS: See HEARING LOSS

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (ADC): See DIGITAL RECORDING.

ANECHOIC CHAMBER

ANTINODE: See STANDING WAVES.

APERIODIC: See INHARMONIC , PERIODIC.

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS: See ACOUSTICS.

ARTICULATION INDEX

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE: See Appendix B.

ATTACK

ATTENUATION

ATTENUATOR

AUDIO

AUDIOCENTRIC

AUDIO FREQUENCY

AUDIO SIGNAL: See AUDIO.

AUDIO SPECTRUM: See AUDIO FREQUENCY, SPECTRUM

AUDIOGRAM

AUDIOLOGIST

AUDIOLOGY

AUDIOMETER

AUDIOMETRY

AUDITORY

AUDITORY NERVE: See COCHLEA, EAR, INNER EAR.

AUGMENTED (interval): See INTERVAL.

AURAL

AURAL FATIGUE: See ADAPTATION, THRESHOLD SHIFT.

AURAL HARMONICS

AURAL HISTORY: See ORAL HISTORY.

AURICLE

AURIST

AZIMUTH

BACKGROUND MUSIC: See MOOZAK.

BACKGROUND NOISE

BACKING: See EMULSION.

BAFFLE

BAND

BAND-PASS or BAND-REJECT: See FILTER.

BANDWIDTH

BAR: See Appendix B, RHYTHM

BASILAR MEMBRANE

BASS

BEAT: See METRONOME, RHYTHM, TEMPO.

BEAT FREQUENCY: See BEATS.

BEATS

BEL: See DECIBEL.

BINAURAL BEATS: See BEATS

BINAURAL HEARING

BINAURAL RECORDING

BLEND

BLUMLEIN MICROPHONE TECHNIQUE: See STEREOPHONIC.

BOILERMAKER'S DISEASE

BONE CONDUCTION

BONE CONDUCTION HEARING LEVEL

BROAD BAND NOISE

BROWNIAN MOTION: See GAUSSIAN NOISE.

BULK ERASER

CANCELLATION

CANYON EFFECT

CARDIOID: See DIRECTIVITY.

CARRIER

CASSETTE (tape): See TAPE RECORDING.

CENT: See EQUAL TEMPERAMENT, Appendix B and Appendix C.

CENTRE FREQUENCY

CHANNEL

CHOPPING: See SWITCH.

CHORD: See HARMONY.

CHORUS EFFECT or CHORAL EFFECT: See BLEND, VOLUME.

CHROMA: See PITCH.

CHRONIC THRESHOLD SHIFT: See THRESHOLD SHIFT.

CLAIRAUDIENCE

CLASSICAL STUDIO TECHNIQUE: See SOUND SYNTHESIS.

CLICK

CLIPPING: See PEAK CLIPPING.

COATING: See EMULSION.

COCHLEA

COCHLEAR IMPLANT: See: SENSORY-NEURAL HEARING LOSS.

COCKTAIL PARTY EFFECT

COLOURED NOISE: See WHITE NOISE.

COMB FILTER

COMBINATION TONES

COMMA (PYTHAGOREAN): See PYTHAGOREAN SCALE.

COMMUNICATION

COMMUNITY NOISE EQUIVALENT LEVEL

COMPENSATION: See EQUALIZATION.

COMPLEX TONE

COMPOSITE NOISE RATING

COMPRESSION

COMPUTER (SOUND) SYNTHESIS: See SOUND SYNTHESIS.

CONCERT PITCH

CONDENSATION: See COMPRESSION.

CONDUCTIVE HEARING LOSS

CONE OF CONFUSION: See BINAURAL HEARING.

CONSONANCE

CONSONANT

CONSTANT Q FILTER: See FILTER.

CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE: See INTERFERENCE.

CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM: See SPECTRUM.

CONTROL VOLTAGE: See DIRECT CURRENT, SOUND SYNTHESIZER.

CONVERSION: See DIGITAL RECORDING, SOUND SYNTHESIS, TRANSDUCER.

CORTI ORGAN: See ORGAN OF CORTI.

COUPLING: See AMPLIFICATION, SOUNDBOARD.

CRITICAL BAND

CROSS-FADE

CROSSTALK

CUE

CUT-OFF: See FILTER.

CYCLE

CYCLE PER SECOND (cps, c/s): See FREQUENCY, Appendix B.

DAMAGE-RISK CRITERIA

DAMP

DAY-NIGHT EQUIVALENT NOISE LEVEL: See EQUIVALENT ENERGY LEVEL.

DEAD AIR: See SILENCE.

DEAD ROOM

DEAD SPOT: See CANCELLATION, DIFFUSION, INTERFERENCE, STANDING WAVES.

DEAFNESS: See HEARING LOSS.

DECAY

DECAY TIME

DECIBEL

DEGAUSS

DEMODULATION

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE: See CANCELLATION, INTERFERENCE.

DIAPHRAGM

DICHOTIC

DIFFERENCE TONE

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD

DIFFRACTION

DIFFUSE SOUND FIELD

DIFFUSION

DIGITAL AUDIO TAPE (DAT): See MAGNETIC TAPE.

DIGITAL RECORDING

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (DSP): See SOUND SYNTHESIZER.

DIGITAL SOUND SYNTHESIS: See SOUND SYNTHESIS.

DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER (DAC): See SOUND SYNTHESIS.

DIMINISHED (interval): See INTERVAL.

DIOTIC: See BINAURAL HEARING.

DIPHTHONG: See VOWEL.

DIPLACUSIS

DIRECT CURRENT

DIRECTIVITY

DISAPPEARING SOUND

DISCRETE CHANNELING: See SEPARATION.

DISSONANCE

DISTORTION

DIVERGENCE LOSS: See SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS.

DOMAINS: See EMULSION.

DOPPLER EFFECT

DRONE

DROPOUT

DUBBING

DUTY CYCLE: See PULSE.

DYNAMIC RANGE

DYNAMICS

EAR

EAR CLEANING

EARDRUM

EARWITNESS

ECHO

ECHO CHAMBER

ECHO DENSITY: See REVERBERATION.

ECHOLOCATION

EDITING: See MONTAGE, SPLICE.

EFFECTIVE PERCEIVED NOISE LEVEL

EFFECTIVE VOLTAGE or POWER: See ROOT MEAN SQUARE.

EIGENTON

ELECTROACOUSTIC

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

EMULSION

ENCLOSURE

ENVELOPE

EQUALIZATION

EQUALIZER: See EQUALIZATION.

EQUAL LOUDNESS CONTOURS

EQUAL TEMPERAMENT

EQUIVALENT ENERGY LEVEL

EXPANDER: See COMPRESSION.

EXPOSURE LEVEL: See EQUIVALENT ENERGY LEVEL.

FADE

FADER

FATIGUE OF HEARING: See ADAPTATION, THRESHOLD SHIFT.

FEEDBACK

FIDELITY

FIELD PATTERN: See DIRECTIVITY.

FIFTH

FILTER

FIRST GENERATION: See DUBBING.

FLANGING: See PHASING.

FLAT

FLAT LINE SOUND: See STATIONARY SOUND.

FLETCHER-MUNSON CURVES: See EQUAL LOUDNESS CONTOURS.

FLUTTER

FOLDOVER: See SOUND SYNTHESIS.

FOLEY: See SOUND EFFECT.

FORCED OSCILLATION: See OSCILLATION.

FORMANT

FOURIER ANALYSIS

FOURIER COEFFICIENT: See FOURIER THEOREM.

FOURIER SYNTHESIS

FOURIER THEOREM

FOURIER TRANSFORM: See FOURIER ANALYSIS.

FOURTH

FREE FIELD

FREQUENCY

FREQUENCY DISTORTION: See DISTORTION.

FREQUENCY DOMAIN: See SPECTRUM.

FREQUENCY MODULATION

FREQUENCY RESPONSE

FUNDAMENTAL

GAIN

GATE: See COMPRESSION.

GAUSSIAN NOISE

GENERATION: See DUBBING.

GENERATOR

GEOMETRIC SPREADING: See SOUND PROPAGATION.

GLISSANDO

GRAIN

GRANULAR SYNTHESIS or GRANULATION: See GRAIN.

GRAMOPHONE

GRAPHIC LEVEL RECORDER: See LEVEL RECORDER.

GRAPHOPHONE

GROUND ABSORPTION or GROUND EFFECT: See SOUND PROPAGATION, section 3.

HAAS EFFECT: See PRECEDENCE EFFECT.

HABITUATION: See ADAPTATION.

HAIR CELLS: See ORGAN OF CORTI, VOLLEY THEORY.

HARMONIC

HARMONIC DISTORTION: See DISTORTION.

HARMONIC SERIES

HARMONY

HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION (HRTF): See BINAURAL HEARING.

HEADROOM: See VU METER.

HEARING LEVEL

HEARING LOSS

HELMHOLTZ RESONATOR

HERTZ (Hz): See FREQUENCY, Appendix B.

HETERODYNE

HI-FI

HISS

HOMOPHONY: See POLYPHONY.

HUM

HUM NOTE: See FUNDAMENTAL.

HYPERACUSIS

IMPACT INSULATION CLASS

IMPACT-NOISE ANALYSER: See SOUND ANALYSER.

IMPACT SOUND

IMPULSE SOUND: See IMPACT SOUND, PULSE.

INCIDENCE

INFRASONIC

INHARMONIC

IN-HEAD LOCALIZATION: See PAN.

INNER EAR

INTENSITY

INTENSITY LEVEL

INTERFERENCE

INTERMODULATION DISTORTION: See DISTORTION.

INTERNAL DYNAMICS

INTERVAL

INTONATION

INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORM: See FOURIER SYNTHESIS.

INVERSE-SQUARE LAW

IPS: See MAGNETIC TAPE, Appendix A.

ISOBEL

ISOMETRIC: See RHYTHM.

JET PAUSE

JUST NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE (jnd): See DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD.

JUST TUNING

KEYNOTE

KILOCYCLE: See FREQUENCY, Appendix B.

KILOHERTZ (kHz): See FREQUENCY, Appendix B.

KUNSTKOPF

LAW OF SUPERPOSITION

LAW OF UNCERTAINTY

LEADER TAPE: See EMULSION, MAGNETIC TAPE.

LEAKAGE: See CROSSTALK.

LEVEL: See AMBIENT NOISE LEVEL, DECIBEL, LOUDNESS LEVEL, NOISE LEVEL, SOUND LEVEL, SOUND POWER LEVEL, SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL.

LEVEL RECORDER

LIMITER

LINEAR

LINE SOURCE: See SOUND PROPAGATION.

LINE SPECTRUM: See SPECTRUM.

LISTENING WALK: See SOUNDWALK.

LOCALIZATION: See BINAURAL HEARING.

LO-FI

LOGARITHMIC: See LINEAR, DECIBEL.

LONGITUDINAL WAVE: See SOUND WAVE.

LOOP: See TAPE LOOP, STANDING WAVES.

LOUDNESS

LOUDNESS LEVEL

LOUDNESS LEVEL CONTOURS: See EQUAL LOUDNESS CONTOURS, PHON.

LOUDSPEAKER

MAGNETIC TAPE

MAGNETIC WIRE

MAGNETOPHON: See TAPE RECORDING.

MASK

MASS

MEGACYCLE: See FREQUENCY, Appendix B.

MEGAHERTZ (mHz, MHz): See FREQUENCY, Appendix B.

MEL

MESSAGE

METACOMMUNICATION

METALANGUAGE

METRIC RHYTHM: See RHYTHM.

METRONOME

MICROPHONE

MICROTONE: See SCALE, QUARTER TONE.

MIDDLE EAR

MINIMUM AUDIBLE ANGLE

MINIMUM AUDIBLE FIELD (MAF): See THRESHOLD OF HEARING.

MISSING FUNDAMENTAL: See FUNDAMENTAL.

MIX

MODE: See: SCALE , VIBRATION.

MODULATED CARRIER

MODULATION

MODULATION DEPTH

MODULATION SYNTHESIS: See SOUND SYNTHESIS.

MOLECULAR RELAXATION: See SOUND PROPAGATION, section 2a.

MONAURAL HEARING

MONOPHONIC

MONOPHONY: See POLYPHONY.

MONTAGE

MOOZAK

MORPHEME

MORPHOLOGY

MULTI-TRACK RECORDING: See CHANNEL, STEREOPHONIC.

MUSIQUE CONCRÈTE

MUZAK: See MOOZAK.

NAB

NARROW BAND NOISE

NETWORK

NODE: See STANDING WAVES.

NOISE

NOISE ABATEMENT: See DAMAGE-RISK CRITERIA, NOISE, NOISE POLLUTION.

NOISE AND NUMBER INDEX

NOISE CRITERION

NOISE EXPOSURE FORECAST

NOISE GATE: See COMPRESSION.

NOISE INDUCED PERMANENT THRESHOLD SHIFT (NIPTS): See THRESHOLD SHIFT.

NOISE ISOLATION CLASS

NOISE LEVEL

NOISE POLLUTION

NOISE POLLUTION LEVEL

NOISE RATING

NOISE REDUCTION COEFFICIENT

NOISE REDUCTION FACTOR

NOISE-REDUCTION SYSTEM: See DYNAMIC RANGE, TAPE RECORDING.

NON-LINEAR: See LINEAR.

NOTE

NOY

OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS

OCTAVE

OCTOPHONIC: See QUADRAPHONIC, STEREOPHONIC.

OMNI-DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONE: See DIRECTIVITY.

ONSET TRANSIENTS: See ENVELOPE , TRANSIENT.

ORAL HISTORY

ORGAN OF CORTI

OSHA

OSCILLATION

OSCILLATOR

OSCILLOSCOPE

OSSICLES

OTOLOGY

OUTER EAR: See EAR, AURICLE, PINNA.

OVER-MODULATION: See MODULATION, PEAK CLIPPING.

OVERTONE

PAN

PAN-POT: See PAN.

PARABOLIC REFLECTOR

PARAMETER

PARTIAL

PARTICLE VELOCITY

PASSBAND: See FILTER.

PEAK CLIPPING

PEAK LEVEL

PEAK PROGRAMME METER: See VU METER.

PEAK VOLTAGE: See ROOT MEAN SQUARE.

PENTATONIC: See SCALE.

PERCEIVED NOISE LEVEL

PERCENTAGE OF MODULATION: See MODULATION, VU METER.

PERFECT (interval): See INTERVAL.

PERFECT PITCH

PERIOD

PERIODIC

PERIODICITY

PERIODICITY PITCH: See FUNDAMENTAL.

PERIPHONY: See STEREOPHONIC.

PERMANENT THRESHOLD SHIFT (PTS): See THRESHOLD SHIFT.

PHANTOM IMAGE: See PANNING.

PHASE

PHASE DIFFERENCE

PHASE-SHIFT

PHASING

PHON

PHONE

PHONEME

PHONEMICS

PHONETICS

PHONOGRAPH

PHONOLOGY

PINK NOISE: See WHITE NOISE.

PINNA

PITCH

PLOSIVE: See VOCAL STOP.

PNdB: See PERCEIVED NOISE LEVEL.

POINT OF ARTICULATION: See RHYTHM.

POINT SOURCE: See SIMPLE SOUND SOURCE, SOUND PROPAGATION.

POLAR PATTERN: See DIRECTIVITY.

POLYPHONY

POTENTIOMETER

POWER

PRECEDENCE EFFECT

PREFERRED NOISE CRITERION

PRESBYCUSIS

PRESENCE

PRESSURE: See SOUND PRESSURE.

PRINT-THROUGH

PROGRAM SIGNAL: See MODULATED CARRIER, MODULATION, RADIO SPECTRUM.

PROJICIENCE

PROPAGATION

PSYCHOACOUSTICS

PSYCHOPHYSICS: See PSYCHOACOUSTICS.

PULSE

PUNCTUATION: See RHYTHM.

PURE TONE: See SIMPLE TONE, SINE TONE.

PYTHAGOREAN SCALE

Q (of a Filter): See FILTER.

QUADRAPHONIC

QUALITY

QUANTUM (Sound): See GRAIN.

QUARTER TONE

RADIATION: See ACOUSTIC RADIATION.

RADIO SPECTRUM

RANDOM NOISE

RANGE

RAREFACTION

RATE CHANGER: See TEMPOPHONE.

RATE OF DECAY

RECALL: See ORAL HISTORY.

RECEIVER

RECRUITMENT

RECTANGULAR WAVE: See SQUARE WAVE.

RECTIFICATION

REDUNDANCY

REFLECTION

REFLECTION COEFFICIENT

REFRACTION

RESIDUE

RESONANCE

RESONANCE CURVE

RESONATOR

RESPONSE

REVERBERANT FIELD: See DIFFUSE SOUND FIELD.

REVERBERATION

REVERBERATION CHAMBER: See ECHO CHAMBER.

REVERBERATION TIME: See REVERBERATION.

RHYTHM

RIAA

RING MODULATION: See MODULATION.

RISE TIME

ROLL-OFF: See FILTER.

ROOT: See FUNDAMENTAL.

ROOT MEAN SQUARE

RUMBLE

RUNNING COMMENTARY: See ORAL HISTORY.

RUSTLE NOISE

SABIN: See ABSORPTION, Appendix B.

SACRED NOISE

SAMPLER or SAMPLING: See DIGITAL RECORDING, SOUND SYNTHESIZER.

SAMPLING RATE: See DIGITAL RECORDING, SOUND SYNTHESIS.

SAWTOOTH WAVE

SCALE

SCATTERING: See SOUND PROPAGATION, section 2.

SCHIZOPHONIA

SCRUBBING: See CUE.

SECOND

SECOND-ORDER BEATS: See BEATS.

SEMICIRCULAR CANALS

SEMITONE: See EQUAL TEMPERAMENT, FLAT, INTERVAL, JUST TUNING, PYTHAGOREAN SCALE, SHARP.

SENSORY-NEURAL HEARING LOSS

SEPARATION

SEVENTH

SHARP

SHELL-SHOCK: See IMPACT SOUND.

SHELVING: See EQUALIZATION.

SHOCK WAVE: See SONIC BOOM.

SHOTGUN MICROPHONE

SIBILANCE

SIDEBAND

SIGNAL

SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO

SIGNAL TRANSFER: See PRINT-THROUGH.

SILENCE

SIMPLE SOUND SOURCE

SIMPLE TONE

SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION

SINE TONE

SINE WAVE

SINGING FORMANT: See FORMANT.

SINUSOIDAL WAVE: See SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION, SINE WAVE.

SIXTH

SLAP ECHOES: See ECHO, PARABOLIC REFLECTOR.

SOCIOCUSIS

SONAR

SONE

SONIC

SONIC BOOM

SONIC ENVIRONMENT: See SOUNDSCAPE.

SONIC INTRUSION: See SOUND INTRUSION.

SONICS

SONIFEROUS GARDEN

SONOGRAM (SONAGRAM): See SPECTROGRAPH.

SONOGRAPH (SONAGRAPH): See SPECTROGRAPH.

SONOGRAPHY

SONOLOGY: See SOUND.

SONORITY

SONOROUS

SOUND

SOUND ANALYSER

SOUNDBOARD

SOUND EFFECT

SOUND EVENT

SOUND FIELD: See DIFFUSE SOUND FIELD , FREE FIELD.

SOUND HORIZON: See ACOUSTIC HORIZON.

SOUNDING BOARD: See SOUNDBOARD.

SOUND INSULATION

SOUND INTENSITY

SOUND INTRUSION

SOUND LEVEL

SOUND LEVEL METER

SOUNDMAKING: See SOUNDWALK.

SOUNDMARK

SOUND MIRROR: See TAPE RECORDER.

SOUND OBJECT

SOUND-ON-SOUND

SOUND PHOBIA

SOUND POLLUTION

SOUND POWER

SOUND POWER LEVEL

SOUND PRESSURE

SOUND PRESSURE FUNCTION: See WAVEFORM.

SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL

SOUND PROFILE: See ACOUSTIC SPACE.

SOUNDPROOF

SOUND PROPAGATION

SOUND ROMANCE

SOUNDSCAPE

SOUNDSCAPE DESIGN

SOUNDSCAPE ECOLOGY

SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT: See WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT.

SOUND SHADOW

SOUND SIGNAL

SOUND SYNTHESIS

SOUND SYNTHESIZER

SOUND TABOO: See SOUND PHOBIA.

SOUND TRANSMISSION CLASS

SOUND TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENT

SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS

SOUNDWALK

SOUND WAVE

SPECTRAL ENVELOPE: See SPECTRUM.

SPECTROGRAM: See SPECTROGRAPH.

SPECTROGRAPH

SPECTRUM

SPEECH COMMUNICATION CRITERION

SPEECH INTERFERENCE LEVEL

SPEED OF SOUND

SPILL

SPLICE

SQUARE WAVE

STANDING WAVES

STATIONARY SOUND

STATIONARY STATE

STATIONARY WAVES: See STANDING WAVES.

STEADY STATE: See STATIONARY STATE.

STEADY STATE SOUND: See DRONE, HUM, STATIONARY SOUND.

STEREOPHONIC

STOCHASTIC PROCESS

STRIKE NOTE: See FUNDAMENTAL.

SUBAUDIO: See INFRASONIC.

SUBHARMONIC

SUBSONIC

SUBTRACTIVE SYNTHESIS: See SOUND SYNTHESIS.

SUMMATION TONE

SUPERPOSITION, PRINCIPLE OF: See LAW OF SUPERPOSITION.

SUPERSONIC

SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT

SWITCH

SYMPATHETIC VIBRATION

SYNCOPATION: See RHYTHM.

SYNTHESIS: See SOUND SYNTHESIS.

SYNTHESIZER: See SOUND SYNTHESIZER.

TAPE ECHO: See ECHO.

TAPE FEEDBACK: See FEEDBACK.

TAPE LOOP

TAPE MUSIC

TAPE RECORDER

TAPE RECORDING

TEMPERAMENT

TEMPERED TUNING

TEMPO

TEMPOPHONE

TEMPORARY THRESHOLD SHIFT (TTS): See THRESHOLD SHIFT.

TENTH-OCTAVE BAND ANALYSER: See SOUND ANALYSER.

THERMAL NOISE: See GAUSSIAN NOISE.

THIRD

THIRD-OCTAVE BAND ANALYSER: See SOUND ANALYSER, SPECTRUM chart.

THRESHOLD OF HEARING

THRESHOLD OF PAIN

THRESHOLD SHIFT

TIMBRE

TIME DOMAIN: See SPECTRUM, WAVEFORM.

TIME STRETCHING: See: Granulation , TEMPOPHONE.

TINNITUS

TONE

TONE CONTROL: See EQUALIZATION.

TONE-HEIGHT: See PITCH.

TRACK: See CHANNEL, MAGNETIC TAPE.

TRAFFIC NOISE INDEX

TRANSDUCER

TRANSIENT

TRANSIENT DISTORTION: See DISTORTION.

TRANSIENT RESPONSE

TRANSMISSION

TRANSMISSION LOSS (TL): See SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS.

TRANSVERSE WAVE: See OSCILLOSCOPE, SOUND WAVE.

TREBLE

TREMOLO

TRIANGLE WAVE

TRILL

TRITONE: See INTERVAL.

TUNING

TWEETER

TYMPANUM

TYPOLOGY

UHF

ULTRASONIC

ULTRASOUND: See ULTRASONIC.

UNISON

UNVOICED: See CONSONANT, VOWEL.

VASOCONSTRICTION: See THRESHOLD SHIFT.

VELOCITY OF SOUND: See SPEED OF SOUND.

VHF

VIBRATION

VIBRATION ANALYSER: See SOUND ANALYSER.

VIBRATO

VISIBLE SPEECH: See SPECTROGRAPH.

VOCAL CORDS: See CONSONANT, VOWEL.

VOCAL STOP

VOCAL TRACT: See FORMANT, RESONATOR, VOWEL.

VOICED or VOICELESS: See CONSONANT, VOWEL.

VOLLEY THEORY

VOLTAGE CONTROL: See DIRECT CURRENT, SOUND SYNTHESIZER.

VOLUME

VOLUME UNIT (VU): See VU METER.

VOWEL

VU METER

WAVE: See SOUND WAVE.

WAVE-ANALYSER: See SOUND ANALYSER.

WAVEFORM

WAVELENGTH

WAVE PROPAGATION: See SOUND PROPAGATION.

WEIGHTING NETWORK: See SOUND LEVEL METER.

WHITE NOISE

WIDEBAND NOISE: See BROAD BAND NOISE.

WIND SCREEN

WIRE RECORDER: See MAGNETIC WIRE.

WOOFER

WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT

WOW

ZERO LEVEL VU

ZEITDEHNER: See TEMPOPHONE.

Appendix A: LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS

Appendix B: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

Appendix C: COMPARISON OF TUNING SYSTEMS

Appendix D: CONVERSION FROM POWER OR VOLTAGE RATIOS TO DECIBELS

Appendix E: EXAMPLES OF CRITICAL BANDWIDTHS

Appendix F: LOUDNESS SUMMATION

 
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