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sound

adjective accurate, acknowledged, admitted, cogent, compelling, convincing, correct, credible, effective, effectual, efficacious, factual, forceful, incontrovertible, irrefutable, justified, legitimate, persuasive, potent, powerful, proven, right, rightful, scientific, solid, strong, substantial, true, truthful, unanswerable, unchallengeable, unconfutable, undisputable, undistorted, unexaggerated, unimagined, unimpeachable, veracious, veritable, weighty, well-founded, well-grounded
Associated concepts: sound discretion, sound value

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Similarly, if you were able to step back from the universe and just listen, you would hear the collective sound of the universe, and that sound is Aura.

The universal Om

The sound of a golf ball dropping on a cement driveway

Having a "ball" with Staccato

They can tell where the bug is by listening to the difference in the sound at the left and right ears," says Cindy Moss, a psychologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Echoes of hunting

Note the sound that you hear: How does it compare with the sounds you heard when you tapped the larger soda bottle?

Hands-on science: (no lab required)

But, a third strategy, surely the most widespread and significant, has come to prominence in a spate of recent shows presenting sound under the banner of "synaesthesia," an aesthetic appropriation of the neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory modality triggers involuntary sensation in another.

Lost in translation: Christoph Cox on sound in the discourse of synaesthesia

Working with the major aircraft engine manufacturers, NASA has been able to reduce the former sound by designing engines with larger fans.

Clamoring for quiet: new ways to mitigate noise

That's not sound as humans know it, so Whittle shifted the entire cosmic production up into the audible range.

Cosmic melody: tuning in to the early universe

Decoding is taught through explicit phonics method that stresses letter sound correspondences and blending.

Use of precorrection strategies to enhance reading performance of students with learning and behavior problems

We set out to re-create the spirit and sound of the original recordings as much as possible.

SPIRITUAL SYMPHONY AFTER A TURBULENT TIME, BRIAN WILSON IS BACK IN HARMONIOUS GOOD FORM WITH HIS 'PET SOUNDS'

Pollution control, growth management, land preservation, and new forestry techniques give the Puget Sound basin a fighting chance.

Is Puget Sound in peril?

A growing number of studies reveal that the sound waves produced by gunshots may not always be detected by body-worn transmitters or audio recorders.

Gunshots and audio equipment

Dolby technologies power the sound of high-definition today and are engineered to deliver on the promise of digital entertainment tomorrow.