acoustician

noun

ac·​ous·​ti·​cian ˌa-ˌkü-ˈsti-shən How to pronounce acoustician (audio)
ə-ˌkü-
: a specialist in acoustics

Examples of acoustician in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In fact, that inventor and acoustician James West, whose intelligent failures resulted in more than 250 patents, including one for the electret microphone, was African American makes his success that much more noteworthy. TIME, 2 Jan. 2024 The final composition is thanks to not only the in-house team but also an acoustician, who fine-tunes each gong for both harmony and melody. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2023 Breguet employs an in-house acoustician whose job is to ensure the perfect pitch on its minute repeaters. Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023 Architect and acoustician John Storyk got his break at age 22 designing Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix. Steven Rosenbush, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2020 The team doing the renovations includes award-winning acoustician Paul Scarbrough, who recently played a key role in the $500 million-plus reinvention of New York’s David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023 At some point during the fall, the acoustician Paul Scarbrough returned to tinker with the hall’s settings, so perhaps Mäkelä just lucked out on the timing. Justin Davidson, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022 In the 1990s acoustician David Lubman recorded the hand-clap echoes at El Castillo and compared them with recordings of the quetzal. Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2012 Both men recounted how Leo Beranek, Abramovitz’s acoustician for Philharmonic Hall, who had guaranteed his new scientific approach would create the ideal auditorium, ended up sidelined on the decision about enlarging the hall. Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022

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Word History

Etymology

acoust(ic) + -ician

First Known Use

1826, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of acoustician was in 1826

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“Acoustician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acoustician. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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