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• n  a physicist who specializes in acoustics

• You would be hard-pressed to find a competent acoustician, heart specialist or surgeon who would find the startle of the sonic boom acceptable to society.
• According to acoustician Derek Sugden, "Wood can be death unless it's stiff and thick.
• Confronted with a case involving a clattering air conditioner, Cosimo Caccavari, the city's top acoustician, asked the owner to draw a floor plan of his house.