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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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Doctor: It plays music. What's the point of that? Oh, with music, you can dance to it, sing with it, fall in love to it. Unless you're a Dalek of course. Then it's all just noise.

Doctor Who Evolution of the Daleks (2007), written by Helen Raynor.

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Could we not imagine that noise...is itself nothing more than the sum of a multitude of different sounds which are being heard simultaneously?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dictionnaire de Musique (1767).

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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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