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Sound is a mechanical wave that 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.-Propagation of...

is audible sense perceived by the brain.

Sound may also refer to:
  • 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 and wider than a fjord; or it may be defined as 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, e.g.:
    • Öresund
      Oresund
      The Sound , is the strait that separates the Danish island Zealand from the southern Swedish province of Scania. Its width is just at the narrowest point between Helsingør, Denmark, and Helsingborg, Sweden...

      , a specific strait nicknamed The Sound;
    • Marlborough Sounds
      Marlborough Sounds
      The Marlborough Sounds are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys created by a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels at the north of the South Island of New Zealand...

       in New Zealand;
    • Puget Sound
      Puget Sound
      Puget Sound is a sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and one minor connection to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific Ocean — Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and...

       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...

      ; and
    • Long Island Sound
      Long Island Sound
      Long Island Sound is an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, located in the United States between Connecticut to the north and Long Island, New York to the south. The mouth of the Connecticut River at Old Saybrook, Connecticut, empties into the sound. On its western end the sound is bounded by the Bronx...

      , in the Northeast United States.
  • sound (medical instrument)
    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 people enjoy using them for urethral play.-Urethral sounds:...

    , instruments for probing and dilating passages within the body
  • 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
  • Soundtrack
    Soundtrack
    A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, 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...

    , the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game
  • Soundwave (Transformers)
    Soundwave (Transformers)
    Soundwave is the name of several characters in the various series Transformers series. His most famous disguise is that of a microcassette recorder and has an iconic voice done by a vocoder.-Transformers: Generation 1:...

    , one of the Decepticons in The Transformers universe

Music

  • Sounds (magazine)
    Sounds (magazine)
    Sounds was a long-term British music paper, published weekly from 10 October 1970 – 6 April 1991. It was produced by Spotlight Publications , which was set up by Jack Hutton and Peter Wilkinson, who left "Melody Maker" to start their own company...

    , a British music weekly newspaper
  • A music subgenere or "scene", such as the Nashville sound
    Nashville sound
    The Nashville sound originated 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 and dissolved 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 Indie Rock band. Formed in Helsingborg in 1999, the group's musical style has been compared to New Wave acts such as Blondie, The Cars, the Epoxies and Missing Persons....

    , a Swedish rock 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...

    , 1991
  • Sound (Dreadzone album), 2001
  • Sound (Colorama song)
  • Sound (Roscoe Mitchell album)
    Sound (Roscoe Mitchell album)
    Sound is the debut album by free jazz saxophononist Roscoe Mitchell recorded in 1966 and released on the Delmark label. It features performances by Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, Maurice McIntyre, Lester Lashley and Alvin Fielder...

  • Sound (cumbia)
    Sound (cumbia)
    Sound is a music style from Chile that originates from cumbia and draws influence from Argentine Cumbia villera and Tecnocumbia. Sound music is also known in Chile as Música Tropical. In deference to Tecnocumbia Sound has faster beat...

    , a Chilean musical genre similar to Tecnocumbia

Television

  • Sound (BBC TV series)
    Sound (BBC TV series)
    Sound was a weekly music, entertainment and chat show that broadcasted on BBC2 as part of the BBC Switch teen strand. It was presented by BBC Radio 1 DJs Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw....

    , a BBC programme featuring current popular music of different genres
  • Sounds (Australian TV series), an Australian music TV series of the 1970s - 1980s

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 hamlet is located 3¼ miles to the south west of Nantwich. The parish also includes the small settlements of Newtown and Sound Heath...

  • Sound Heath
    Sound Heath
    Sound Heath, also known as Sound Common, is an area of common land in Sound, near Nantwich in Cheshire, England, which includes heathland, grassland, scrub, woodland and wetland habitats...

    , an area of common land in Sound, Cheshire
  • Sound, Lerwick in Shetland

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 final 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

See also

  • Audio (disambiguation)
  • Soundwave (disambiguation)
  • The Sound (disambiguation)
    The Sound (disambiguation)
    The Sound were an English post-punk band.The Sound or The Sounds may also refer to:*Øresund, the strait between Sweden and Denmark*Plymouth Sound, the inlet of the English Channel at Plymouth, England*The Sound...

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