acoustic resistance

1. 1.

   opposition to the flow of sound through a surface; acoustic resistance is the real component of acoustic impedance and acoustic reactance is the imaginary component

   Synonymsacoustic impedanceacoustic reactance

   Broaderresistance

Questions about acoustic resistance

What does acoustic resistance mean?

acoustic resistance means "opposition to the flow of sound through a surface; acoustic resistance is the real component of acoustic impedance and acoustic reactance is the imaginary component".

What is another word for acoustic resistance?

Close synonyms include acoustic impedance, acoustic reactance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acoustic resistance a common word?

acoustic resistance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.