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Parent topics

• Frequency [r]: For a periodic (i.e., repeating) phenomena, the number of repetitions per unit of time, usually one second; measured in Hertz ^[e]
• Amplitude [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Biology

• Hearing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ear [r]: The organ that detects sound. ^[e]

Physics

• Wave [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gas [r]: One of the major states of matter (i.e., gas, liquid, solid and plasma). ^[e]
  • Air [r]: A colorless, odorless and tasteless mixture of gases consisting mostly of nitrogen (N₂) and oxygen (O₂) which is the part of Earth's atmosphere that humans and all other animals breathe in order to obtain the oxygen needed to sustain life. ^[e]
• Liquid [r]: One of the major states of matter (i.e., gas, liquid, solid, and plasma). ^[e]
• Solid [r]: The state in which matter maintains a fixed volume and shape (is neither a gas nor a liquid). ^[e]
• Hertz [r]: The international (SI) unit of frequency, with units of inverse seconds, commonly called cycles per seocond. ^[e]

Language

• Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. ^[e]
• Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. ^[e]
• Spoken language [r]: An example of language produced using some of the articulatory organs, e.g. the mouth, vocal folds or lungs, or intended for production by these organs; alternatively, the entire act of communicating verbally - what people mean or intend, the words they use, their accent, intonation and so on. ^[e]

Phonetics

• Phonetics [r]: Study of speech sounds and their perception, production, combination, and description. ^[e]
  • Acoustic phonetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Auditory phonetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Articulatory phonetics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Communication [r]: The set of interactive processes that create shared meaning. ^[e]
• Hearing impairment [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Language [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. ^[e]
• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]