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  2. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  3. Sibilant - Wikipedia

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    Hollow (e.g. [s]): This hollow accepts a large volume of air that is forced through a typically narrow aperture that directs a high-velocity jet of air against the teeth, which results in a high-pitched, piercing "hissing" sound. Because of the prominence of these sounds, they are the most common and most stable of sibilants cross-linguistically.

  4. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless alveolar sibilant is a common consonant sound in vocal languages. It is the sound in English words such as sea and pass, and is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with s . It has a characteristic high-pitched, highly perceptible hissing sound.

  5. Suona - Wikipedia

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    Because of its unique sound, the suona has become one of the most popular instruments among young people today, because they can use traditional instruments to perform the modern repertoire. Nowadays, suona even appears in band performances, festival performances, music programs, movies, and in any other way, and is widely loved by young people.

  6. Treble (sound) - Wikipedia

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    Treble describes tones of high frequency or high pitch, ranging from 6 kHz to 20 kHz, [1] comprising the higher end of the human hearing range. In music, this corresponds to high notes. The treble clef is often used to notate such notes. [2] Treble sound is the counterpart to bass sound.

  7. Shrillness - Wikipedia

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    Shrillness is a word used to describe the quality of sounds that have a high-pitched, strident, raucous, screeching or harsh character, such as those produced by a trumpet or piccolo, but it can also be used to describe a widely recognised and puzzling phenomenon whereby certain sounds are perceived as psychologically painful or aversive to a degree that cannot be accounted for simply in terms ...

  8. Audio frequency - Wikipedia

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    An audio frequency or audible frequency (AF) is a periodic vibration whose frequency is audible to the average human.The SI unit of frequency is the hertz (Hz). It is the property of sound that most determines pitch.

  9. Tinnitus - Wikipedia

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    For instance, two recognized sources of high-pitched sounds might be electromagnetic fields common in modern wiring and various sound signal transmissions. A common and often misdiagnosed condition that mimics tinnitus is radio frequency (RF) hearing, in which subjects hear objectively audible high-pitched transmission frequencies that sound ...