Acoustic

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Acoustic may refer to:

In science:

• Acoustics, a branch of physics that studies sound
  • Musical acoustics, the branch of acoustics that studies the physics of music
• Acoustic meatus, another name for the ear canal

In music:

• Acoustic instrument, as opposed to an electric instrument
• Acoustic music, music that solely or primarily uses acoustic instruments
• Acoustic guitar, as opposed to electric guitar
• Acoustic bass guitar, as opposed to electric bass guitar
• Acoustic (Deine Lakaien album), 1995
• Acoustic (John Lennon album), 2004

Other:

• Acoustic Control Corporation, a company which produced instrument amplifiers using Acoustic as a brand name
• Acoustic thermometry, observation of the oceans' climates using long-range acoustic instruments
• Acoustic cryptanalysis, in cryptography, a side channel attack which exploits sounds

[edit] See also

• Piano acoustics
• Acoustic fingerprint
• Acoustic torpedo

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