acoustic spectrum

1. 1.

   the distribution of energy as a function of frequency for a particular sound source

   Synonymssound spectrum

   Broaderspectrum

   Narrowerspeech spectrum

Questions about acoustic spectrum

What does acoustic spectrum mean?

acoustic spectrum means "the distribution of energy as a function of frequency for a particular sound source".

What is another word for acoustic spectrum?

Close synonyms include sound spectrum. 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 spectrum a common word?

acoustic spectrum 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.