Acoustics_Vocabulary

=Acoustics Vocabulary=

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 * Acoustics:** (Noun). Is the term for the study of sound and how sound is experienced. The field of acoustics is divided into several specialist areas. The word acoustics comes from the Greek akoustikos (“to do with hearing”) and akouo (“to hear”).

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 * Background Noise:**(Noun). For example, speech, scraping chairs, humming ventilation, traffic, machinery and equipment, sound from corridors, adjoining rooms, playgrounds. Increased background noise can have long-term negative effects, such as illness, fatigue, decreased productivity and efficiency. Therefore it is not recommended to attempt to obtain better daily speech privacy by increasing the ventilation noise, or use other sound masking systems. Another thing to bear in mind is that people are differently sensitive to sound and noise in general. Privacy and seclusion in open plan spaces can only be solved satisfactory by creating separate rooms for confidential discussions and work tasks needing higher concentration.

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 * Flutter Echo:** (Noun). Occurs when noise bounces between parallel surfaces in a room.

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 * Noise:** (Noun). Unwanted sound. Noise can often be the individual perception of a particular sound, e.g. a background noise.

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 * Sound Absorbers:** (Noun). Materials and structures with the ability to take up sound energy and convert it into other forms of energy. They improve room acoustics by removing sound reflections, thus reducing the noise and the reverberation time.