What is "sonics"

Usage examples of "sonics".

Silky hung at the net beside her, moving clumsily, stunned by his wound or by the sonics that had dazzled the mers.

The miniature transceiver built into the sides of the sheath probed the grass with sonics to analyze its molecular structure, then broadcast the data to Fess, who determined if any of the molecules were incompatible with human metabolism.

Infuriated by what they witnessed being done to the captive by the savage captors, Harold Kenmore had used twenty-first-century weaponsheat-stunners, projectors which made use of sonics to cause conflagration or bring unconsciousness, depending entirely on the settingto not only eliminate the torturers, but send the entire force of rievers spurring hard back toward Scotland, screaming mindlessly or praying, terrified at the sight of the two green-glowing man-shaped demons who had appeared from nowhere.

Sonics sent a shock wave chattering across Allgood, blurred his image.

There was a lot of that on Kalliste, unfortunately, the upside being that their little pings were unlikely to be detected by the Baldies amidst the stew of heat, sonics, and piezo-EM emitted by the volcano.

The music was a compendium of styles, but the heart seemed to be an English mysticism, speaking of primordial enchantments and startling discoveries of sonics and textures and intricate movings and churnings between volume and subtlety.

It had to be hypnosis, some method using high-speed strobing and special sonics that operated right at the nervous system level, something that cut in between her higher thought processes and her physical responses.

The computer, and the bone-strengthening laminae, and the servo motor network, and the lasers, and the sonics.

Ostrand's four-hour film, Blackness, which except for low-light effects and subliminal sonics contains nothing but the blackness of the title, was considered too miserabilist to please the usually conservative judges.

Using the tiny file as an aural template, police techs in Nogales had successfully generated a syntharym that perfectly mimicked the individual sonics.