Sound (disambiguation)

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Sound is an audible mechanical wave propagating through matter, or the perception of such waves by the brain.

Sound or Sounds may also refer to:

Geography[edit]

  • Sound (geography), a large ocean inlet, or a narrow ocean channel between two bodies of land
  • Sound, Cheshire
  • Sound, Lerwick in Shetland
  • Sound Heath, an area of common land in Sound, Cheshire
  • Milford Sound, a fjord in the South Island of New Zealand
  • Øresund or Öresund, commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden).

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Literature[edit]

  • "Sounds" (short story), a short story by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Klänge (English translation: Sounds), a 1912 book by Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky

Music[edit]

Groups[edit]

Albums[edit]

Genres[edit]

Other uses in music[edit]

  • "Sound" (song), a 1991 single by the English rock band James
  • Soundtrack, the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game

Television[edit]

  • Sound (TV series), a BBC programme featuring current popular music of different genres, aired between 2007 and 2009
  • Sounds (TV series), an Australian music television series of the 1970s and 1980s

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Sports[edit]

Other uses[edit]

  • Sound (medical instrument), an instrument for probing and dilating passages within the body
  • Sound (nautical), a verb meaning to take depth readings of fluids in a tank or around a ship
  • Sound (sex toy), a sex toy designed to be inserted through the urethra of the penis for sexual pleasure
  • Sound, the act of diving by a whale
  • Soundness, a logical term meaning that an argument is valid and its premises are true
  • Speech sound or phone, a speech segment analyzed below the phonemic level

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