Word Meanings - POLYACOUSTICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

Related words: (words related to POLYACOUSTICS)

• MAGNIFY
  1. To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one
• MULTIPLY
  To add to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication. 3. To increase by the arts of alchemy. Multiplying
• OVERMULTIPLY
  To multiply or increase too much; to repeat too often.
• OVERMAGNIFY
  To magnify too much. Bp. Hall.