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SOUND PROPERTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An attribute of sound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sound property" is a kind of...):
property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sound property"):
sound (the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause)
quiet; silence (the absence of sound)
musicality; musicalness (the property of sounding like music)
harmony (an agreeable sound property)
dissonance (disagreeable sounds)
pitch (the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration)
registration ((music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops)
quality; timber; timbre; tone ((music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound))
intensity; loudness; volume (the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction))
softness (a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency)
rhythmicity (the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music)
