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aftersound

noun

Etymology

From after- + sound.

  1. derived from sonō
  2. derived from soner
  3. derived from suner
  4. inherited from sownden
  5. derived from *swenh₂-✻
  6. derived from sonus
  7. derived from son
  8. derived from sun
  9. inherited from sownde
  10. prefixed as aftersound — “after + sound”

Definitions

  1. A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it

    A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it; the perception of such a sound.

    • […] the strings of an instrument, […] being strucken with the hand, do verberate the ayre in its first sound, and are reverberated by the ayre to an after-sound.
    • He fired the Winchester twice again, into the distance, then lowered it, the ringing aftersound of the gunfire in his ears.
    • Edward was awakened that night by a loud clattering noise which left an after-sound of high ringing.

  2. The second, slower phase of decay in the sound made by a piano string when it is struck.

  3. A weaker sound that immediately follows a more salient one, such as the second, less…

    A weaker sound that immediately follows a more salient one, such as the second, less prominent vowel sound in a falling diphthong.

    • They [gu and qu] were not groups formed of a guttural stop and the semi-vowel v, but guttural stops with a labial aftersound; the latter receiving a very much weaker articulation than the semi-vowel v.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aftersound. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA