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Six , six
six / siks/ • cardinal number equivalent to the product of two and three; one more than five, or four less than ten; 6: she's lived here six mont… sestina , ses·ti·na / seˈstēnə/ • n. Prosody a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends i… Les Six , Les Six
Les Six (lā sēs), a short-lived group of six young early 20th-century French musicians. They were united by their adverse reactions to the ex… Sounding , sound·ing1 / ˈsounding/ • n. the action or process of measuring the depth of the sea or other body of water. ∎ a measurement taken by sounding. ∎ the… sound barrier , sound barrier Name for the cause of an aircraft's difficulties in accelerating to a speed faster than that of sound. When approaching the speed of so… Phonetics , phonetics (fōnĕt´Ĭks, fə–), study of the sounds of languages from three basic points of view. Phonetics studies speech sounds according to their prod…
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