Sentence examples for pattern of sound from inspiring English sources

A recording is a pattern of sound waves embedded in a medium.

The sea licks the lip of the rock, the constant, repeated, slightly shifting pattern of sound; partially sunk bottle lifting lightly in the transparent, sun-mottled sea.

He is wondrously nimble at tracking a pattern of sound through a text, though the process rapidly become repetitive and over-technical: "There are three ih sounds in the next stanza, two in the next stanza, along with two i sounds.

"Spins, cramp rolls, turns and crossover steps were woven into an intricate pattern of sound and movement, as the brothers spun out back-sliding rhythms that slipped smoothly from place to place on the stage," Constance Valis Hill wrote in her "Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers," published this year.

Similarly, the vOICe, the product of another company, translates the visual scene into a pattern of sound (brightness is represented by volume, and elevation is represented by pitch); yet another device, intended for the deaf, translates auditory stimuli into patterns of tactile stimulation, useful for burn patients who have lost tactile sensitivity in their skin.

The theoretical model serves as the first attempt to optimize the position and pattern of sound absorption materials in a long enclosure, such as an underground railway station or a building corridor, for the reduction of noise and improvement of sound quality.

It also has a repeated pattern of sounds—"lub-dub, lub-dub"—its rhythm.

Other studies show distinctive neural responses from similar regions when there is an unexpected break in a repetitive pattern of sounds, or in a chord progression.

But by continuously imitating what I heard in the song, to the point that it became almost a chant, I had been subconsciously teaching my brain and mouth a pattern of sounds independent from their words or meaning.

In 1967 Dr. Payne and Scott McVay, who are appearing at a symposium as part of the festival, discovered that humpback whales produced a repeated pattern of sounds that could be described as a song, a discovery that popularized the plight of whales and put the spotlight on commercial whaling.

So, what exists as an audible pattern of sounds is represented visually, that is, the mode of existence of the thing represented is radically different from the mode of its representation.