Usually means: Sound not amplified by electronics.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. acoustic: Merriam-Webster
  2. acoustic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acoustic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acoustic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acoustic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acoustic, acoustic: Wordnik
  7. acoustic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acoustic: Wiktionary
  9. acoustic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acoustic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acoustic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acoustic: Dictionary.com
  13. acoustic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. acoustic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Acoustic (Above & Beyond album), Acoustic (Bayside EP), Acoustic (Coldplay EP), Acoustic (Everything but the Girl album), Acoustic (Joey Cape and Tony Sly album), Acoustic (John Lennon album), Acoustic (Lights EP), Acoustic (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album), Acoustic (Nouvelle Vague album), Acoustic (Second Coming EP), Acoustic (Simple Minds album), Acoustic (disambiguation), Acoustic (film), Acoustic (magazine), Acoustic, The Acoustic (Ektomorf album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Acoustic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. acoustic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. acoustic: Rhymezone
  19. acoustic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. acoustic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. acoustic: FreeDictionary.org
  22. acoustic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. acoustic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. acoustic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. acoustic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. acoustic: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Acoustic (album), Acoustic (disambiguation): Encyclopedia
  2. acoustic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. acoustic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Acoustic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. acoustic: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. acoustic: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  7. Acoustic (album), Acoustic (disambiguation), -acoustic, acoustic: Medical dictionary
  8. Acoustic: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ACOUSTIC: Power Engineering

(Note: See acoustically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds.
adjective:  (architecture, of building materials) Used for soundproofing or modifying sound.
adjective:  (of a device or system) Using sound energy in its operation.
adjective:  (weaponry, of an explosive mine or other weapon) Able to be set off by sound waves.
adjective:  (music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification or the need thereof.
adjective:  (humorous or proscribed) Non-electric; mechanical.
noun:  (usually in the plural) The properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it.
noun:  (medicine) A medicine or other agent to assist hearing.
noun:  Clipping of acoustic guitar. [A hollow-body guitar of the older variety, in contradistinction to an electric guitar.]

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