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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The region within a distance a fraction of a wavelength from a sound source. Accordingly, the outer boundary of the near-field region is closer for high-pitched sound than for low-pitched sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: acoustics
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noun
The region within about half a wavelength from an electrically small antenna. More specifically it is the region within the radiansphere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, communication, communications, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Antonyms: far field
History
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