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Answer for the clue "Absorbing or deadening sound ", 8 letters:
anechoic

Alternative clues for the word anechoic

Word definitions for anechoic in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context acoustics English) lacking echos; that absorbs sound

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not having or producing echoes; sound-absorbent; "an anechoic chamber"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1948, in electronics, from an- (1) "not" + echoic .

Usage examples of anechoic.

But long before the codebreakers moved into the sterile supercomputer laboratories, clean rooms, and anechoic chambers, their hunt for the solution to that ultimate puzzle took them to dark lakebeds and through muddy swamps in the early light of the new Cold War.

Systems Processing Center, houses a series of bizarre anechoic chambers.

Work proceeded round the clock on several Federation ships, but the uniformly open horizon absorbed sound better than anechoic paneling.

It was an anechoic chamber, absolutely soundproof and free of vibrations.

It was also quite monotonous, walking forward in the beam of the searchlight through the anechoic darkness of Rama.

In an underwater world, the first one to hear the other side was usually the winnerto help keep sound waves from bouncing off the steel hull of the ship, resilient-compound blocks had been attached to her hull as an anechoic coating.

It was an anechoic chamber, absolutely soundproof and free of vibrations.

It was also quite monotonous, walking forward in the beam of the searchlight through the anechoic darkness of Rama.

There were about maybe two dozen beginning recovering addicts there in the anechoic vestry of an upscale church in what Erdedy figured had to be either west Belmont or east Waltham.

In the endless heartbeat before that, he was a silent demon of entropy who waited to unwind the clockspring of Fowler's universe, the better to celebrate its last anechoic tick.

At night there might have been the whine of insects, but they were deep under the sand against the scorch of day, and the yellow sky and yellow sand became an anechoic chamber in which You Bastard's breath sounded like a steam-engine.

At night there might have been the whine of insects, but they were deep under the sand against the scorch of day, and the yellow sky and yellow sand became an anechoic chamber in which You Bastard’.