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Sonic

adjective

(of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level. Synonym: transonic.

Relating to audible sound.

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... in quite a lot of artifacts from surface-asteroids. But there's not much in the way of new principle for our camera manufacturers to buy. Lens systems, shutters, shock mountings, self-developing, integral viewing, projecting and sonic features, all turn out to be similar to ours. It's usually that way with other devices, too. It's as if all their ...

— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... stupenjious events By the low Yankee stan'ard o' dollars an' cents: They seem to forgit, thet, sence last year revolved, We've succeeded in gittin' seceshed an' dissolved, An' thet no one can't hope to git thru dissolootion 'Thout sonic kin' o' strain on the best Constitootion. Who asks for a prospec' more flettrin' an' bright, When from here clean to Texas it's all one free fight? Hain't we rescued from Seward the gret leadin' featurs Thet makes it wuth while to be reasonin' creaturs? ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various

Words linked to "Sonic" : audible, hearable, supersonic, sonic depth finder, sonic delay line, sonic barrier, subsonic