English-Portuguese translations for acoustics

• acústica
  Senhor Presidente, permita-me acrescentar ainda que estou agradavelmente surpreendido com a acústica nesta Câmara. Allow me to add that I am pleasantly surprised by the acoustics in this Chamber.
  Senhora Presidente, gostaria de dizer que a acústica da sala é muito má. Madam President, I would like to say that the acoustics in this room are very bad.
  Como sabe, vários de nós têm levantado o problema da acústica neste hemiciclo. You will know that several of us have raised the question of the acoustics here in the Chamber.

Definition of acoustics

• The physical quality of a space for conveying sound
• The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena and laws

Examples

• Until they discovered the non-contractual Carnegie Hall wondered, since the renovations, why the acoustics had changed.
• Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. - Sir John Herschel

Related words

• psychoacoustics
• photoacoustics
• bioacoustics
• electroacoustics
• optoacoustics
• neuroacoustics
• electro acoustics