Crossword clues for subsonic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sub-sonic, 1937, from sub- + sonic. Compare supersonic.\n
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a sound English) having a frequency too low to be audible 2 (context of a speed English) less than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure) 3 (context fluid mechanics of a flow English) with a Mach number such that 0.3 < Ma < 0.8 (approximately - the exact limits vary between sources).
WordNet
adj. (of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium; "aircraft flying at subsonic speeds" [ant: supersonic, sonic]
Wikipedia
Subsonic may refer to:
- Any speed lower than the speed of sound within a sound propagating medium is called subsonic
- Subsonic aircraft, a flying machine that flies at air speeds lower than the speed of sound
- Subsonic ammunition, a type of bullet designed to avoid creating a loud shockwave when fired
- subsonic flight, an aircraft flight at air speeds lower than the speed of sound in air
- Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel
- SubSonic (software), an open source object-relational mapper for .NET
- Subsonic (media server), an open source media server
- Subsonic (EP), an EP by Younha
Subsonic is a web-based media server. It is written in Java, so it can run on any operating system with Java support. Subsonic supports streaming to multiple clients simultaneously, and supports any streamable media (including MP3, AAC, and Ogg). Subsonic also supports on-the-fly media conversion (through the use of plugins) of most popular media formats, including WMA, FLAC, and more.
After a 30-day trial period, certain premium features require a $1/month subscription.
As of version 6.0 Subsonic is no longer open source.
SubSonic is an open source object-relational mapper for Microsoft .NET Framework maintained by Rob Conery. The current version is 3.0, released in July 2009.
Subsonic (released January 1, 2002 by the label Curling Legs - CLPCD 71) is an studio album by Vigleik Storaas Trio.
Subsonic is the third extended play by South Korean singer Younha. The album was released on December 6, 2013 and is her eleventh non-compilation release.
Usage examples of "subsonic".
He sat in a comfortable chair watching sound spectrograms scroll across one computer monitor, while on another a program picked out the digital sequence in the subsonic signal and broke it into text.
To optimize maneuverability, a computer automatically adjusted the flaps and slats when the machine was maneuvering in the subsonic and transonic speed ranges.
Most of the basic tones were subsonic, sensed in the bones rather than the eardrums, but there were overtones and harmonics aplenty, a cacophony that somehow managed to seem both too bass and too shrill for comfort.
Floyt could almost hear its eerie tonalities and deep, nearly subsonic hum.
Five An-995 subsonic heavylift cargo planes were parked on it, fat cylindrical bodies with a rear wing and canard configuration, all of them in blue and white Air Russia colours.
She grabbed Carrik by the arm just as the subsonic noise touched him and as Esmond Valdi lifted protecting hands to his ears.
A steady rush of air, the metal beneath his back thrumming gently, producing a nearly subsonic bass note and putting his teeth on edge.
The device could be adjusted far more rapidly than a subsonic projector and would be unlikely to set off a town's warning system, which, I presume, would be directed to keep an eye out for much more conventional weaponry.
With its integral sound and flash suppressor, and its subsonic ammunition, the weapon was virtually undetectable from a concealed position, making no sound that could be identified as a gun shot above normal street and traffic noise.
A pulsejet develops thrust at rest, and could boost a vehicle to high subsonic velocity where ramjets become efficient.
The baffles need changing after every five hundred rounds or so, there's no slide lock, but I had the recoil spring altered so it functions perfectly with subsonic ammunition.
Drag had slowed it to subsonic velocity immediately after launch, but its solid fuel motor slammed it past the sound barrier as it homed on die Aegis cruiser's radar.
Hal's flight experience was limited to one subsonic transocean flight to Australia and five short helicopter trips during the last phase of their training.
The Condor was a light, subsonic craft with a single turbofan engine.
The subsonic AGM-86C cruise missile had a turbojet engine that flew the missile at six miles per minute for 500 miles.