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A-B Test

AC3

Acoustic impedance

Acoustic material

Airborne sound

Airflow resistance

Airflow resistivity

Ambience

Ambient noise

Absorption

Absorption Coefficient

Acoustics

AES

Amplitude

Analog

Anechoic

Anechoic chamber

Articulation

Artificial Reverberation

Arithmetic mean sound
pressure level

ASA

ASHRAE

Attack

Attenuate

Audible frequency range

Audiophile

Auditory Area

Aural

Average room
absorption coefficient

Average sound pressure level

Axial Mode

A-weighting


Background noise

Baffle

Bandpass filter

Bandwidth

Bass

Beaming

Beats

Binaural

Boomy

Broad band noise

Bright

Byte


Channel Balance

Characteristic
impedance of the medium

Clipping

Coherence

Coloration

Comb filter

Compression

Critical band

Critical Distance

Critical Frequency

Cross-talk

Crossover frequency

Cutoff frequency

Cycles per second


Damp

DB

DB (A)

DB (B)

DB (C)

Decay rate

Decibel

Diaphragm
(also diaphragmatic)

Diffraction

Diffuse field

Digital

Dipole

Directivity index (DI)

Distortion

Divergence

Dolby Digital

Dolby Prologic

DTS

DSP

DVD

Dynamic Headroom

Dynamic range

Dyne


Echo

Echograms

EES

EFC

EFTC

Ensemble

Equal loudness contour

Equalizer

Equalization

ETC

Euphonic

Extension


Far field

Feedback, acoustic

Field sound
transmission class, FSTC

Field transmission loss, FTL

Flame spread

Flanking transmission

Fletcher-Munson Curve

FTC

FFT

Fidelity

Filter, high pass

Filter, low pass

Filter, band pass

Flutter

Fourier analysis

Free field

Frequency

Frequency response

Fuel contributed

Fundamental

Fusion Zone


Gain

Grain

Grating, diffraction

Grating, reflection phase


Haas effect

Hard room

Harmonics

Headroom

Hearing Sensitivity

Hertz

Helmholtz resonator

High-pass filter


IEEE

Imaging

Impedance

Impact Insulation Class, IIC

Impulse

Impulse response

In phase

Insertion loss, IL

Interference

Initial time-delay gap

Inverse-square law

ITD

Intensity


JASA

JAES


KHz


Law of the first wave front

LEDE

Level, L

Level reduction, LR

Linear

Live end dead end

Logarithm

Loudspeaker

Loudness


Masking

Mass law

Mean free path

Metric sabin

Microphone

Midrange

Millisecond

Mode

Modal resonance

Monaural:

Monitor

Monophonic

Monopole

Muddy

Muting


NAB

Near field

Noise

Noise criteria

Noise isolation class, NIC

Noise reduction (NR)

Noise reduction c
oefficient (NRC)

Normal incidence
sound absorption

Normal mode

Normalized noise
isolation class, NNIC

Normalized noise
reduction, NNR

Null


Oblique mode

Octave

Octave bands

One-third octave bands

Overtone


Particle velocity, u

Passive absorber

Peak sound pressure level

PFC

Phase

Phase shift

Phon

Pink noise

Pitch

Polarity

Plenum

% Alcons

Pressure zone

Psychoacoustics

Pure tone


Random noise

Rarefaction

RASTI

Ray

RC (Room Criteria) Curves

Reactance

Reactive absorber

Receiving room

Reflection

Reflection-phase grating

Refraction

Resistance

Resonance

Resonant frequency

Response

Reverberant sound field

Reverberation

Reverberation room

Reverberation time

RFZ

Room mode


Sabin

Sabine

Self-extinguishing

Self-noise

Signal-to-noise (SN) Ratio

Sine Wave

Slap back

Smoke developed

Soft room

Sone

Sound

Sound Absorption

Sound absorption coefficient

Sound attenuation

Sound Energy, E

Sound energy density, D

Sound insulation

Sound intensity

Sound isolation

Sound level

Sound power, W

Sound power level, L

Sound pressure, p

Sound Pressure Level (SPL)

Sound receiver

Sound spectrograph

Soundstage

Sound transmission
class, STC

Sound transmission
coefficient, r

Sound transmission loss, TL

Sound Waves

Source room

Speaker Level

Specific airflow resistance, r

Spectral balance

Specular reflections

Spectrum

Spectrum analyzer

Speech Intelligibility

Spherical divergence

Splaying

Standing wave

Steady-state

Stereo

STI Speech
Transmission Index

Structureborne noise

Subwoofer

Superposition


T60

Tangential mode

TDS

TEF

Threshold of hearing

Threshold of feeling (pain)

THX

Timbre

Timbral

Time-delay spectrometry

Tonal

Tone

Tone burst

Total harmonic distortion (THD)

Transient response

Transients

Transparency

Treble

Tuning Frequency


Vibration isolation

Volume


Warmth

Watt

Wattage

Wave

Wavelength

Weighting

White Noise