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sound wave

noun as in wave that transmits sound

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Lossless works by capturing the recording’s original sound waves and putting them together to create an accurate reproduction of its initial quality.

With their headphones on, they bobbed their heads to the beats they were cooking up and watched intently as sound waves danced across their laptop screens.

Still, these were plasma waves, and not sound waves.

From Salon

They point to a health centre that they say struggles to accurately measure patients' blood pressure at times because the sound waves from the concerts disturb the readings in their machines.

From BBC

To counter this, they used a “sonicator”, which blasts the bubbles with sound waves in order to dislodge them.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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