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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sonic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sonic boom
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boom
▪ A loud sonic boom was heard by observers on shore.
▪ The frequency of published reports has actually declined since 1960 because people tend to dismiss loud explosions as merely military sonic booms.
▪ Who could foresee the sonic boom when the needle finally hit the groove on my cheap record changer?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For sonic strange reason management did not share our insight.
▪ He was a hand sonic man, rugged, and everyone always remembered his brilliant blue eyes.
▪ It is certainly verified experimentally that the sonic clicks produced are both highly structured and directional.
▪ It needs a commitment, a strength in parts and its own sonic identity.
▪ Reduced sonic logs have been superimposed at well locations.
▪ So do Humpbacks have ways of expressing the same request for the repetition of a pleasurable sonic experience?
▪ Valery Gergiev stares unblinkingly into the sonic maelstrom that Tchaikovsky unleashes.
▪ Who could foresee the sonic boom when the needle finally hit the groove on my cheap record changer?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sonic

1923, from Latin sonus "sound" (see sound (n.1)) + -ic. Sonic boom is attested from 1952.

Wiktionary
sonic

a. 1 of or relating to sound 2 having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air

WordNet
sonic
  1. adj. (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level; "a sonic boom" [syn: transonic] [ant: subsonic, supersonic]

  2. relating to audible sound; "a sonic wave"

Wikipedia
SONIC (Ethernet controller)

SONIC (System-Oriented Network Interface Controller) DP83932 is a National Semiconductor 10 Mbit/s Ethernet controller. In the early 1990s, integrated ethernet subsystems based on the SONIC controller were used in computer workstations such as the MIPS Magnum family and the Olivetti M700, inter alia.

Sonic (train)

is the name used by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) for the limited express train service operating between Hakata and Ōita via Kokura and Beppu along the Kagoshima Main Line and Nippō Main Line in Kyushu, Japan. It runs every 30 minutes at a speed of - with a journey time of approximately 2 hours.

Sonic

Sonic, sanic or Sonics may refer to:

Usage examples of "sonic".

He looked up from his current patientan Otolla Gungan observer from Naboo, who had had his buccal cavity severely varicosed by a sonic pistol blast the day before.

The Iceman was leaning against a wall, looking out at the street through a window, and the Forever Kid stood in the open front door, totally relaxed while idly fingering the handle of his sonic pistol.

Kinaveral Port willfly card, and gave her a key to a sleeping room with its own sonic cleaner, which device Khat made immediate, grateful use of.

After toweling his face, Bart lightly limped over to his desk and retrieved his finest nibbed pen from the sonic cleaner.

The resultant sonic boom blew quoll and bats up against the back wall, where they remained flattened and motionless, as if glued in place.

If I can find the right sonic wavelength, I can strike my saser in the proper manner, and with the proper force, to bathe the Earth in sonic vibrations that will, in a matter of a day or so, for it takes time for sound to travel, wipe out humanity, while scarcely touching other life-forms with nucleic acids of differing intimate structure.

I can find the right sonic wavelength, I can strike my saser in the proper manner and with the proper force to bathe the Earth in sonic vibrations that will, in a matter of a day or so, for it takes time for sound to travel, wipe out humanity, while scarcely touching other life forms with nucleic acids of differing intimate structure.

Lugging sonic battering rams, the new penetration team--five times the size of the previous squad--rushed up to the barricaded doors on the quiet side of the sprawling facility, choosing to enter through wings less likely to be occupied by the murderous compies.

Before leaving the area, Maro had rigged a roll-up cable and extender from the hangar roof, set to a sonic switch.

It struck Renner that if he flew a sonic boom straight across the mainland, Bury would be wiped out by the fines.

When Duke Bardak reported who you were, the news spread across Sandar faster than the sonic wake of an atmospheric raider.

A sonic stunner is not impressive, only a grey oval casing with a flat stud on one edge.

I had the micro-recorder and the sonic stunner in that pack and I was taking good care of it.

Before I repacked my baggage I took the sonic stunner out and strapped on the belt-holster.

Rebel realized that Snow was accessing her system, that a tightly-aimed sonic mike or subcortical implant was feeding her data.