sound spectrum

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

   Synonymsacoustic spectrum

   Broaderspectrum

   Narrowerspeech spectrum

Questions about sound spectrum

What does sound spectrum mean?

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

What is another word for sound spectrum?

Close synonyms include acoustic 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 sound spectrum a common word?

sound 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.