sound

Summary

sound ranks in the top 0.34% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,892 views/month, #264 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• sound is a type of acoustic wave^[2].
• sound is a type of longitudinal wave^[3].
• sound is used for communication^[4].
• sound is used for hearing perception^[5].
• sound is used for music^[6].
• sound's Commons category is recorded as Sound^[7].
• sound is the opposite of silence^[8].
• sound's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sound^[9].
• sound's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[10].
• sound's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[11].
• sound's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary^[12].
• sound's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[13].
• sound's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• sound's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[15].
• sound's described by source is recorded as 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica^[16].
• sound's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• sound's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• sound's used by is recorded as alarm clock^[19].
• sound's main Wikidata property is recorded as P4733^[20].
• sound's studied by is recorded as acoustics^[21].
• sound's studied by is recorded as phonology^[22].
• sound's studied by is recorded as audiology^[23].
• sound's exact match is recorded as http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cc^[24].
• sound's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have^[25].
• sound's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include acoustic wave^[2] and longitudinal wave^[3]. sound is the opposite of silence^[8].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include communication^[4], hearing perception^[5], and music^[6]. sound's used by is recorded as alarm clock^[19].

Influence

Things named for sound include Soundex^[27], a phonetic algorithm^[28] and Nias^[29], a natural language^[30], in Indonesia^[31].

Why It Matters

sound ranks in the top 0.34% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,892 views/month, #264 of 77,819).^[1] sound has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] sound is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for sound include Soundex^[27], a phonetic algorithm^[28] and Nias^[29], a natural language^[30], in Indonesia^[31].