acoustician
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- noun
- /əˌkuːˈstɪʃən/
- Specialized
- The acoustician was hired to ensure the concert hall had the best sound quality possible.
- acoustician Lawrence Kirkegaard
- acousticians and architects
Examples
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For this study, Architectural Acoustician Lily Wang of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln worked with graduate student Christopher Ainley to design an experiment that tests how sudden bursts of noise affect a person's performance and perceptions.
Blog text (19) -
The pit at Bayreuth has been accepted by all modern acousticians as absolutely perfect; not only that, but it is impossible to imitate.
Academic text (1998) -
He has signed up Walt Disney Hall's Yasuhisa Toyota as acoustician and identified a site for the hall.
Blog text (29) -
Acousticians, psychologists, and music educators have conducted a large number of studies in pitch perception and performance.
Academic text (2015) -
The hope, therefore, is that the wave propagation and signal-processing advances that ocean acousticians are making will find applications in other fields, and vice versa.
Academic text (2004) -
During the renovations, the acoustician recommended changes to the stage design for optimal acoustics.
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As an acoustician, she specialized in studying how sound behaves in different environments.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word acoustician comes from acoustic, which goes back to an old Greek word akouein meaning 'to hear'. The ending -ician is like in musician and means 'specialist', so an acoustician is a sound expert who studies how we hear and how sound behaves.