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Definition of Sound unit
1. Noun. Any acoustic unit of measurement.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sound Unit
Literary usage of Sound unit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pause: A Study of Its Nature and Its Rhythmical Function in Verse by Ada Laura Fonda Snell (1918)
"Thus, after a sound-unit containing one syllable the average length of the pause
is .23, and the range is from .07 to .4. The purpose in making these ..."
2. The Gary Public Schools: Industrial Work by Charles Russell Richards, General Education Board (1919)
"The term "sound division" or "sound unit" will be used to indicate that words
have been divided in accordance with then" pronunciation, ..."
3. The Gary Public Schools: Measurements of Classroom Products by Stuart Appleton Courtis (1919)
"The term "sound division" or "sound unit" will be used to indicate that words
have been divided in accordance with their pronunciation, ..."
4. The Gary Public Schools: Measurements of Classroom Products by Stuart Appleton Courtis (1919)
"The term "sound division" or "sound unit" will be used to indicate that words
have been divided in accordance with their pronunciation, ..."
5. The Speech of Monkeys by Richard Lynch Garner (1892)
"Having thus augmented the quantity of sound, by increasing alike the sound unit
and interval, it can be recorded on another cylinder and multiplied again as ..."
6. The Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine by New York Academy of Medicine (1894)
"Physical analysis of sound, using this term in its exact significance of auditory
sensations, has shown that the ultimate sound unit is the result of ..."
7. School and Home Education by George Pliny Brown, William Chandler Bagley (1907)
"Almost at once is the sentence analyzed to get the phrase-unit; soon the analysis
brings out the word- unit; somewhat later the final element or sound-unit ..."
8. Transactions of the International medical congress of Philadelphia. 1876 by John Ashhurst (1877)
"A conventional sound-unit might be constructed so as to be of uniform ... 1 Hence
if such a sound-unit, were made, it would possess only a limited value. ..."
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