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  • Sound
    Sound
    Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.- Perception of sound...

    , Audible sense perceived by the brain,
    • in the form of music
      Music
      Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

      , speech sound, or general noise
      Noise
      In common use, the word noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution. In both analog and digital electronics, noise or signal noise is an unwanted random addition to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the audible noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission...

  • Sound (nautical)
    Sound (nautical)
    In nautical terms, the word Sound is used to describe the process of determining the depth of water in a tank or under a ship. Tanks are sounded to determine if they are full or empty and for other reasons...

    , verb meaning to take depth readings of fluids in a tank or around a ship
  • Sound (geography)
    Sound (geography)
    In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....

    , a large ocean inlet, or a narrow ocean channel between two bodies of land
    • Öresund
      Oresund
      Øresund or Öresund , sometimes also known as The Sound, is the strait that separates the Danish island Zealand from the southern Swedish province of Scania...

      , a specific strait nicknamed The Sound
    • Puget Sound
      Puget Sound
      Puget Sound is a sound or complex of inland marine waterways in the northwestern part of Washington, United States, extending from the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca south to the head of the sound at the state capital of Olympia. It branches out from Admiralty Inlet and Deception Pass...

       in Northwestern United States
    • Sounds of Scotland
      Sounds of Scotland
      This is a list of the Sounds of Scotland. These straits vary in size from substantial sea channels to the tiny Clachan Sound, which is only wide and spanned by the Clachan Bridge...

  • In medicine, sound
    Sound (medical instrument)
    In medicine, sounds are instruments for probing and dilating passages within the body, the best-known examples of which are urethral sounds and uterine sounds. Some men and women enjoy using them for urethral play.-Urethral sounds:...

    s are instruments for probing and dilating passages within the body, the best-known of example of which are urethral sounds
  • Soundness
    Soundness
    In mathematical logic, a logical system has the soundness property if and only if its inference rules prove only formulas that are valid with respect to its semantics. In most cases, this comes down to its rules having the property of preserving truth, but this is not the case in general. The word...

    , a logical term meaning that an argument is valid and its premises are true
  • Sound Strategy, a strategy is sound for an agent if, and only if, it never dictates an illegal move for the agent
  • Soundtrack
    Soundtrack
    A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized...

    , the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game
  • Soundwave
    Soundwave (Transformers)
    Soundwave is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers universes.-Transformers: Generation 1:Soundwave is one of the most recognizable characters from the original Transformers line due to his unique alternate mode, a microcassette recorder, and his distinctive, monotone,...

    , one of the Decepticons in The Transformers universe


In music:
  • Sounds (magazine)
    Sounds (magazine)
    Sounds was a British music paper, published weekly from October 10, 1970 – April 6, 1991. It was well known initially for giving away posters in the centre of the paper and later for covering Heavy Metal and Oi! music in its late 1970s-early 1980s heyday...

    , a British music weekly newspaper
  • A music subgenere or "scene", such as the Nashville sound
    Nashville sound
    The Nashville sound arose during the late 1950s as a sub-genre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of honky tonk music which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s...

  • The Sound
    The Sound
    The Sound were an English post-punk band, formed in 1979 disbanding in 1988. The band was fronted by Adrian Borland and evolved from his previous band, The Outsiders...

    , an English post-punk band
  • The Sounds
    The Sounds
    The Sounds are a Swedish New Wave band founded in 1999 in Helsingborg. Their musical style is New Wave. Most songs make integrated use of synthesizers...

    , a Swedish rock band
  • The Sounds (finnish band), a Finnish 60s band
  • Sound (band)
    Sound (band)
    Sound is an independent, Filipino, Jazz band composed of Dru Ubaldo , Erwin Fajardo , Sach Castillo , Francis Magat .- History :...

    , an independent, Filipino Jazz band
  • Sound (James song)
    Sound (James song)
    "Sound" was the first single taken from Seven, the fourth studio album by the Manchester band James.Released in November 1991, it reached #9 in the UK Singles Chart, the second of the group's three top 10 hits to date...

    , a 1991 single by James
    James
    James is a common English surname and given name:* James , the typically masculine first name James* James , various people with the last name JamesJames may also refer to:* King James , various kings named James...

  • Sound (album)
    Sound (album)
    Sound is the fourth studio album by British band Dreadzone. It was released in 2001 on Ruff Life Records.-Track listing:# "Return of the Dread" - # "Crazy Knowledge" - # "Mean Old World" - # "Black Rock and Roll" -...

    , an album by British band Dreadzone
    Dreadzone
    Dreadzone are a British band whose music is an eclectic fusion of dub, reggae, techno, trance, and folk. They have so far produced five studio albums and one live album.-History:...

  • A Chilean musical genre similar to Tecnocumbia
    Tecnocumbia
    Tecnocumbia is a style of Cumbia were there is a fusion between electronic sounds generated by electronic musical instruments through electronic drums, the electric guitar, and . The "Tecnocumbia" was a word developed in Mexico to describe this type of music...



In Television:
  • Sound (BBC TV series)
    Sound (BBC TV series)
    Sound is a weekly music, entertainment and chat show that broadcasts on BBC2 as part of the BBC Switch teen strand. It is presented by Radio One DJs Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw....

    , a BBC
    BBC
    The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...

     programme featuring current popular music of different genres
  • Sounds
    Sounds (TV show)
    Sounds was a popular Australian television series featuring pop and rock music. It was broadcast on Saturday mornings on the Seven Network from the late 1970s to the late 1980s....

    , an Australian music TV series of the 1970s - 1980s


In Art:
  • Sounds (Klänge)
    Klänge
    Klänge is a book by the Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky. Published in an edition of 345 in Munich in late 1912 , the work is a famous early example of an artist's book, containing both poems and woodcuts by the artist, forming two parallel strands, each involving a loose progression...

    , an artist's book by Wassily Kandinsky


As a place name:
  • Sound, Cheshire
    Sound, Cheshire
    Sound is a hamlet and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is located 3¼ miles to the south west of Nantwich. The parish also includes the settlements of Newtown and Sound Heath. Nearby villages include Aston,...

  • Sound (Shetland)
    Sound (Shetland)
    Sound is an area of situated to the west of central Lerwick, the capital town of Shetland....



In sports:
  • Nashville Sounds
    Nashville Sounds
    The Nashville Sounds are a minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League , and the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. They are located in Nashville, Tennessee, and are named for the city's association with the music industry...

    , a minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League
  • Memphis Sounds
    Memphis Sounds
    Memphis Sounds was the name of a franchise in the American Basketball Association. The team had begun as the New Orleans Buccaneers, and after three seasons in New Orleans, Louisiana moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where it had occasionally played some home games in the past to reasonable crowds...

    , a former basketball team of the American Basketball Association