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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Hertz |
The SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Frequency |
The rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Echolocation |
The location of objects by reflected sound, in particular that used by animals such as dolphins and bats. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Infrasound |
Sound waves with frequencies below the lower limit of human audibility. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Ultrasound |
Sound or other vibrations having an ultrasonic frequency, particularly as used in medical imaging. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Sound |
Vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person´s or animal´s ear. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Elasticity |
Ability of an object or material to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Acoustics |
Relating to sound or the sense of hearing. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Transducer |
A device that converts variations in a physical quantity, such as pressure or brightness, into an electrical signal, or vice versa. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Tuning fork |
The action of tuning something on. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Compression |
The action of compressing or being compressed. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Rarefaction |
Diminution in the density of something. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Cycle |
It refers to the complete sequence of a periodic vibration that goes from rarefaction to compression. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Period |
It is the time interval in which a cycle takes place. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Sound Wave Frequency |
The number of cycles that go through a same point during a second. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Wavelength |
The distance that the sound goes through in a complete cycle of change in pressure. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Amplitude |
The distance between the equilibrium position and the maximum wave point. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Tone |
The subjective perception of frequency. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Decibel |
Comparison measure between the minimum humans able to listen and the level we want to calculate. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Absorption |
The process or action by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Reflection |
The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Refraction |
Change of direction in the sound wave. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Bitrate |
The quality of compression. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Codecs |
A microchip that compresses data to enable faster transmission or decompresses received data. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Wrappers |
The way of organising information related to the digital audio. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 WAV |
(Wave): the most used format with no compression. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 AIFF |
(Audio Interchange File Format): format used in the Apple platform. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 CDA |
(Red Book Audio Standard): industrial standard used to encode the audio of compact. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 MP3 |
Audio Layer 3. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 AAC |
Advanced Audio Coding. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 MIDI |
A widely standard for interconnecting electronic musical instruments and computers. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Audacity |
Software editor. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Garage Band |
Sound editor app. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Monaural sound |
When an audio is stored in one single channel and it lacks spatial sensation. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Stereophonic sound |
Or stereo sound, it is stored in two channels that can be reproduced in different loudspeakers and simulate the sensation of listening on one single side. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Surround sound |
Stores the information in more channels that are located around us. |
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Group: 404 Name: Mariana González Villarreal ID: A01570247 Streaming |
Reproduction in which is not necessary to download the file to a device. |
