unacoustic

Having poor acoustic properties; not conducive to the projection of sound; tending to muffle or muddy sounds.

The application of staccato chords has to be strictly limited in unacoustic places, but in resonant buildings, staccato chords, used judiciously, have a very fine effect, as they evoke the echoes from the building in a more effective way than a long sustained chord, however promptly released.

This unacoustic vastness swallows the earth sounds and produces the effect of silence upon the soul.

Lacking sound or sonority; silent or muffled.

The deaf-mutes from a separate community among the hearing people. The most interesting question in their psychology is: What is their conception of the outer world? Of an unacoustic, mute world?

There are times when people prevent life's music from penetrating. There are situations, historical, personal, sociological, and political as well as psychological, in which whole peoples feel imprisoned in a leaden, unacoustic atmosphere.

Having a frequency outside the range of audible sounds.

These results deserve a brief discussion, because they contain the first indications about the "unacoustic" effects in shock reflection : That is, the deviations which shocks of finite strength present from the "acoustic" laws, which hold asymptotically for shocks of infinitesimal strength.

We were mostly concerned with the reflection and refraction of shocks in the unacoustic domain; we found that entirely new forms of these processes, connected with extraordinary pressures and production of vortex sheets, exist there.

Not acoustic; electronically generated or amplified.

Our next respondent agrees with the previous opinion but also points out interest in using the computer for synthesizing original 'unacoustic' sounds.

Leave the backpackers behind and join Saigon's student population to see the seriously un-acoustic local rock bands performing predominantly American covers every night in this heaving live music hub at the end of a narrow alleyway.