Jets can fly so fast that they break the sound barrier and create a sonic boom. From LearnThat.org.
A sonic wave. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A sonic boom. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Usually when scientists use the term sonic, they're talking about soundwaves or things moving at the speed of sound. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Our last eyewitness actually hearing what she described as a sonic boom before that plane went down. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2001] Reference
On his new album, "Earfood," made with his Quintet, Hargrove stayed close to the standard sound to create what he calls sonic pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [WNYC New York Public Radio] Reference
I just want to say uhoh for seeing that super-sonic is also in the game. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - First Sonic SSBB Official Images] Reference
It channels No Age's adventures in sonic architecture into readily usable form. From Wordnik.com. [No Age Shrieks And Soothes On 'Everything In Between'] Reference
| Reply what about tails and knuckles!?! well i guess sonic is good enough: - p. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - First Sonic SSBB Official Images] Reference
But for me sonic is lost, Sega is trying to bring back the old blue fella in "sonic Unleashed". From Wordnik.com. [How Mario Beat Sonic] Reference
| Reply thats funny …. but true … suprised that sonic is not tapping his foot or something in inpatients. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sonic and Mario Olympics] Reference
The military has stood behind such exercises, calling sonic booms "the sounds of freedom.". From Wordnik.com. [Bombs Away] Reference
When a jet exceeds the speed of sound, the air around it produces a noise like thunder, called a sonic boom. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
Riverscapes playing with the idea of sonic underwater imaging and benthic mapping of the Hudson River bottom. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The portable loudspeakers are also known as sonic guns because the volume can be turned up so high they can be used as weapons. From Wordnik.com. [Reuters: Top News] Reference
When they activated a special pathway called sonic hedgehog signaling in mice, they found that the animals developed medulloblastoma. From Wordnik.com. [Baylor College of Medicine News] Reference
Equipment that officers will have at their disposal include so-called sonic cannons, capable of emitting piercing sounds at painful levels. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
The other kind of sonic blaster (UPDATE: SRL protohistory!). From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
At the Escuela de Música, a different kind of sonic salad. From Wordnik.com. [Guanajuato's sonic landscape] Reference
It must have been some kind of sonic anaesthetic, for he felt no pain. From Wordnik.com. [Sentenced To Prism]
They were so close that his deeper voice had a kind of sonic overtone. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Others have used weapons such as sonic guns, which use beams of loud noise to deter pirates. From Wordnik.com. [The Evil Solution] Reference
He could have spelled "sonic" or "strict" neither of which would have won but are at least actual words. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Deride the Wild Surfer] Reference
Tasers fall into this category, as are the kind of sonic weapons that have been used to repel pirates off the coast of Somalia. From Wordnik.com. [Eureka: Non Lethal Weapons] Reference
That kind of sonic realism carried over into the 8: 00 program, which was evenly divided between vocal and instrumental chamber works. From Wordnik.com. [Magna Carter (3): The stuff that dreams are made of] Reference
There's a kind of sonic alchemy running through this album. From Wordnik.com. [Side-Line news feed] Reference
And how stylish it is, like some kind of sonic haute couture. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
I'd love to see some kind of sonic-related iconset for the prosilver theme. From Wordnik.com. [phpBB.com] Reference
Chris Martin in a full KRAFTWERK kind of sonic environment that we re-built. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Hungary Seeks to Reassure Lenders and Investors] Reference
You get the sense of musicians trying to tune into some kind of sonic ley line. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I’m thinking of buying them, once again they are called the sonic x5 from DR. thanks. From Wordnik.com. [Dr Sonic | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
Thanks! ts230 wrote: I'd love to see some kind of sonic-related iconset for the prosilver theme. From Wordnik.com. [phpBB.com] Reference
It creates a kind of sonic-horror novel because of the dark dungeon music supporting the vocals. From Wordnik.com. [Side-Line news feed] Reference
One trio indulge in the kind of sonic, post linear song writing that put's them in the Sigur Ros bracket. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
The same music is unreeling in the lobby, but in that airy space it thins out to a kind of sonic puff of freshener. From Wordnik.com. [In Palinode's Palace] Reference
V = zckfKuWJn1M remember when they cartoon came out "sonic"!. From Wordnik.com. [1UP RSS feed] Reference
They are sloppy mistakes that grow into sonic revelations. From Wordnik.com. [Cries From The Heart] Reference
JAL, for one, was quick to express interest in a near-sonic jet. From Wordnik.com. [Bigger Or Faster?] Reference
Your space extends only as far as your skin; everything beyond that is sonic clutter. From Wordnik.com. [Do You Hear What I Hear?] Reference
For those with the sonic guns, we hijacked some of them even after they fired the sonic guns. From Wordnik.com. [The Evil Solution] Reference
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