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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Sound

If a tree falls in a forest, and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?

Source unknown, but apparently originating in the twentieth century; a 1910 physics book asks "When a tree falls in a lonely forest, and no animal is near by to hear it, does it make a sound? Why?" Charles Riborg Mann, George Ransom Twiss, Physics (1910), p. 235. See also: If a tree falls in a forest.

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Sound

They say gravity is the centre of attraction ; I rather think that noise is. Nothing so soon assembles the inhabitants of a house as a loud and sudden noise:

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Book of Beauty, 1833 (1832), 'The Talisman'.

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Sound

The murmur that springs
From the growing of grass.

Edgar Allen Poe, Al Aaraaf, Part II, line 124.

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