(of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level
<adj.all> a sonic boom
relating to audible sound
<adj.all> a sonic wave
Two sonic booms crackled over the desert as Atlantis swooped powerless through the clear sky, making wide circles as it descended.
Carnegie Hall officials said Friday they are continuing to adjust the hall's acoustics to restore the sonic glory of the great hall that some critics said was lost in a 1986 interior renovation.
The whine and sonic booms from low-flying jets, he says, make ranch life intolerable.
Two sonic booms crackled over the California desert as Atlantis glided powerless through the clear sky, making wide circles to reduce speed as it descended.
I saw three- and four-story buildings that are now one-story buildings." Los Angeles donated sonic equipment to help detect any sounds of people trapped alive in rubble, said Scott Shafer, a spokesman for Mayor Art Agnos.
Here in Dixie Valley, residents have endured as many as 136 sonic booms a day.
"Humans are definitely affected by sonic booms, but beef cattle get used to it," Quinn said.
"There was one small explosion, then a real big one," said Ed Markham of Ekanobel Inc., a chemical plant about four miles from the fireworks factory. "After the first one, I thought it was a sonic boom from a plane.
"It sounded just like a jet was flying real low but then there was this loud noise that I thought was a sonic boom.
Paul Zukofsky, who serves as artistic director of Summergarden, readily acknowledges, but makes no apologies for, the sonic limitations of the yard.
The shuttle's twin sonic booms cracked loudly, waking Santa Barbara and Ventura residents as Discovery crossed the coast and descended toward the 15,000-foot-long concrete runway 22 on Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert.
Yet, the Navy's 1984 draft environmental-impact report on its Fallon-based supersonic operations suggests that "long-term public health data could be collected to test for possible health-related associations" with sonic booms.
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I love the space shuttle." Ojai residents have long lived under the flight path of space shuttles and are used to the sonic booms that in the past have broken windows and knocked glassware off shelves in the largely rural, mountainous area.
In a tacit admission that something was lost, sound-absorbent panels have been placed at the rear of the stage, but so far the results are inconclusive; the hall may have only begun a long search for its lost sonic glory.
You all can hear as we're supersonic a double sonic boom. When you hear that, you'll know we're about five minutes from landing.
Additionally, Mr. Johnson has provided a 30-foot-deep chamber that surrounds the hall's upper level with a series of acoustical doors that may be opened or closed, and a set of acoustical curtains that can adjust sonic reverberation.
Two loud sonic booms crackled overhead as Atlantis descended through partly sunny skies and made its swooping approach to Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert.
Observer's passing reference to The Hecklers - a band of musical terrorists whose mission is to rid Britain of the 'sonic sewage of modern music' - has struck a chord.
It raises the hair on your back when you hear those sonic booms.
Here in western Nevada, residents blame sonic booms from Navy jets for damaging homes, causing heart attacks and making pregnant cattle abort.
Mr. Boulez has, moreover, been spending some of his time at IRCAM reinvesting his earlier works with this new sonic fleshiness.
The returning shuttle crossed the California coast near Santa Barbara, announcing its arrival with the characteristic twin sonic booms.