phonetics (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *phonetics*:
NOUN	cognition	phonetics	the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis

phonetics > pronunciation
Sounds	fahneh'tihks
Rhymes	acoustics ... UNIX: 110 rhymes with ihks...

English > *phonetics*: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	The branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis.
Category of	assimilate	Become similar in sound
	constricted	especially tense
	dissimilate	Become dissimilar / dissimilar by changing the sound qualities
	infection	(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
	lax	pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in 'bet')
	long	(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
	phone, speech sound, sound	(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
	shift	change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
	short	Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
	tense	pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in 'beat')
Broader	acoustics	The study of the physical properties of sound
Spanish	fonética
Catalan	fonètica
Adjectives	phonetic	of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds
Adjectives	phonetic	of or relating to speech sounds
Nouns	phonetician	a specialist in phonetics

HyperDic: phonetics