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Sound is an audible mechanical wave propagating through matter, or the perception of such waves by the brain.

Sound or Sounds may also refer to:

Geography

• Sound (geography), a large ocean inlet, or a narrow ocean channel between two bodies of land
• Sound, Cheshire
• Sound, Lerwick in Shetland
• Sound Heath, an area of common land in Sound, Cheshire
• Milford Sound, a fjord in the South Island of New Zealand
• Øresund or Öresund, commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden).

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

• "Sounds" (short story), a short story by Vladimir Nabokov
• Klänge (English translation: Sounds), a 1912 book by Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky

Music

Groups

• Sound (band), a Filipino jazz band (formed 1999)
• The Sound (band), a defunct English post-punk band (from 1979 to 1988)
• The Sounds, a Swedish indie-rock band (formed 1999)

Albums

• Sound (Dreadzone album), a 2001 studio album by the British fusion band Dreadzone
• Sound (Roscoe Mitchell album), a 1966 studio album by the American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell
• Sounds!, a 1966 album by guitarist Jack Marshall and percussionist Shelly Manne
• Sounds (Spare Snare album), a 2018 album by Scottish lofi band Spare Snare

Genres

• Sound (cumbia), a Chilean musical genre similar to tecnocumbia
• Sound, a music subgenre or "scene", such as the Nashville sound

Other uses in music

• "Sound" (song), a 1991 single by the English rock band James
• Soundtrack, the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game

Television

• Sound (TV series), a BBC programme featuring current popular music of different genres, aired between 2007 and 2009
• Sounds (TV series), an Australian music television series of the 1970s and 1980s

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Sounds (magazine), a defunct British music weekly newspaper, published between 1970 and 1991
• Soundwave (Transformers), one of the Decepticons in The Transformers universe
• BBC Sounds, an audio streaming and download service

Sports

• Austin Sound, an American women's gridiron football team
• Memphis Sounds, a defunct basketball team of the American Basketball Association
• Nashville Sounds, a Minor League Baseball team in the International League of Triple-A
• Seattle Sounders, an American professional soccer club. Also, the name of two now defunct professional clubs.
• Sound FC (women), a current Women's Premier Soccer League team.
• Sound FC (men), an American soccer team.

Other uses

• Sound (medical instrument), an instrument for probing and dilating passages within the body
• Sound (nautical), a verb meaning to take depth readings of fluids in a tank or around a ship
• Sound (sex toy), a sex toy designed to be inserted through the urethra of the penis for sexual pleasure
• Sound, the act of diving by a whale
• Soundness, a logical term meaning that an argument is valid and its premises are true
• Speech sound or phone, a speech segment analyzed below the phonemic level

See also

• Soundz (born 1989), American musician
• Audio (disambiguation)
• Soundwave (disambiguation)
• The Sound (disambiguation)

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