acoustic power
- noun
- /əˈkuːstɪk ˈpaʊər/
- Specialized
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potencia acústica
- In his experiment, he measured the acoustic power produced by different musical instruments.
Examples
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But the organ generates less than 10 watts of acoustic power.
Academic text (2005) -
To develop a real appreciation for the relationship between acoustic power and its effect on the car, one might try listening to the majestic organ passage in Saint-Saëns's Third Symphony.
Academic text (2005) -
The speaker's acoustic power was impressive, filling the whole auditorium with sound.
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The engineers calculated the acoustic power of the sound waves emitted from the loudspeaker.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents are semantically compositional: 'acoustic' relates to sound and 'power' denotes a rate or amount of energy. A learner who knows these meanings can readily infer 'acoustic power' as the power (rate of energy) associated with sound; this is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common noun-noun composition.
Etymology
Acoustic power comes from acoustic (about sound) and power (how much energy or strength something has). Think of a loudspeaker sending out a steady stream of sound energy — that image explains why it means the 'amount of sound energy produced each second'.