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ultrasound

noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ʌl.tɹə.saʊnd/
  • Australian: /ɔl.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔnd/
  • Australian: [ɔʊ̯.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔ̯nd]
  • Australian: [ɔɫ.t͡ʃɹə.sæɔ̯nd]
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  • CMU ARPABET: AH2 L T R AH0 S AW1 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: infrasound

Broader terms: sound

2

noun

Meaning 2

Ultrasonography.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Ultrasonography.

Medical ultrasonography.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Therapeutically applied ultrasonic energy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To treat (someone or something) with ultrasound.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: ambitransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sonography, ultrasonography, echography

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: prenatal diagnosis, imaging, tomography

Narrower terms: A-scan ultrasonography, B-scan ultrasonography

7

noun

Meaning 7

very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sound

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2el- Latin ūls Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Old Latin -ād Latin -ā Latin ultrābor. English ultra- English sound English ultrasound From ultra- + sound.

Across languages

Translations

90 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: ultraklank — sound
  • Albanian: ultratingull — sound
  • Arabic: الْمَوْجَات فَوْقَ الصَّوْتِيَّة (al-mawjāt fawqa ṣ-ṣawtiyya) — sound
  • Armenian: ուլտրաձայն (ultrajayn) — sound
  • Asturian: ultrasoníu — sound
  • Azerbaijani: ultrasəs — sound
  • Bashkir: ультразвук (ulʹtrazvuk) — sound
  • Basque: ultrasoinu — sound
  • Belarusian: ультрагу́к (ulʹtrahúk) — sound
  • Bengali: শ্রবণাতীত শব্দ (srobnatit śobdo) — sound
  • Bulgarian: ултразву́к (ultrazvúk) — sound
  • Burmese: နှုန်းလွန်အသံလှိုင်း (hnun:lwan-a.samhluing:) — sound
  • Catalan: ultrasò — sound
  • Chinese Cantonese: 超聲波 /超声波 (ciu1 sing1 bo1) — sound
  • Chinese Cantonese: 超音波 (ciu1 jam1 bo1) — sound
  • Chinese: 超音波 (zh-min-nan) — sound
  • Chinese Mandarin: 超聲波 /超声波 (chāoshēngbō) — sound
  • Chinese Mandarin: 超音波 (chāoyīnbō) — sound
  • Cornish: ughson — sound
  • Czech: ultrazvuk — sound
  • Danish: ultralyd — sound
  • Dhivehi: އަލްޓްރާ ސައުންޑް (alṭrā saun̊ḍ) — sound
  • Dutch: ultrageluid — sound
  • Esperanto: ultrasono — sound
  • Estonian: ultraheli — sound
  • Finnish: ultraääni — sound
  • French: ultrason — sound
  • Galician: ultrasón — sound
  • Georgian: ულტრაბგერა (ulṭrabgera) — sound
  • German: Ultraschall — sound
  • Greek: υπέρηχος (ypérichos) — sound
  • Hebrew: אולטרה סאונד — sound
  • Hindi: अल्ट्रासाउंड (alṭrāsāuṇḍ) — sound
  • Hungarian: ultrahang — sound
  • Interlingua: ultrasono — sound
  • Italian: ultrasuono — sound
  • Japanese: 超音波 (chōonpa) — sound
  • Kannada: ಅಲ್ಟ್ರಾಸೌಂಡ್ (alṭrāsauṇḍ) — sound
  • Kazakh: ультрадыбыс (ultradybys) — sound
  • Khmer: អ៊ុលត្រាសោន (ʼultraasaon) — sound
  • Korean: 초음파 (cho'eumpa) — sound
  • Kyrgyz: ультразвук (ultrazvuk) — sound
  • Kyrgyz: ультра үн (ultra ün) — sound
  • Latvian: ultraskaņa — sound
  • Lithuanian: ultragarsas — sound
  • Luxembourgish: Ultraschall — sound
  • Macedonian: ултразвук (ultrazvuk) — sound
  • Malay: ultrabunyi — sound
  • Mongolian: хэт авиа (xet avia) — sound
  • Mongolian: хэт долгион (xet dolgion) — sound
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠲᠦ ᠠᠪᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (ketü abiy-a) — sound
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠲᠦ ᠳᠣᠯᠭᠢᠶᠠᠨ (ketü dolɣiyan) — sound
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ultralyd — sound
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ultraljod — sound
  • Persian: فراصوت (farâ-sowt) — sound
  • Polish: ultradźwięk — sound
  • Portuguese: ultrassom — sound
  • Punjabi: الٹرا ساؤنڈ — sound
  • Romanian: ultrasunet — sound
  • Russian: ультразву́к (ulʹtrazvúk) — sound
  • Northern Sami: ultrajietna — sound
  • Serbo-Croatian: у̏лтразвӯк — sound
  • Serbo-Croatian: ȕltrazvūk — sound
  • Slovak: ultrazvuk — sound
  • Slovene: ultrazvok — sound
  • Spanish: ultrasonido — sound
  • Swedish: ultraljud — sound
  • Tagalog: lakdawnugan — sound
  • Tajik: ультрасадо (ultrasado) — sound
  • Tamil: மீயொலி (mīyoli) — sound
  • Tatar: ультратавыш (ulʹtratawış) — sound
  • Telugu: అతిధ్వనులు (atidhvanulu) — sound
  • Thai: อัลตราซาวนด์ (an-dtrâa-saao) — sound
  • Thai: อัลตร้าซาวด์ (an-dtrâa-saao) — sound
  • Turkish: ultrason — sound
  • Turkish: yansılanım — sound
  • Turkmen: ultrases — sound
  • Ukrainian: ультразву́к (ulʹtrazvúk) — sound
  • Urdu: بالا صَوت (bālā saut) — sound
  • Uzbek: ultratovush — sound
  • Vietnamese: siêu âm — sound
  • Welsh: uwchsain — sound
  • Yakut: ультразвук (ulʹtrazvuk) — sound
  • Yiddish: אולטראַשאַל (ultrashal) — sound
  • Finnish: ultraäänihoito — use of ultrasound
  • Finnish: ultraäänitutkimus — use of ultrasound
  • Finnish: ultraäänikuvaus — use of ultrasound
  • Finnish: ultraääni — use of ultrasound
  • Italian: ecografia — use of ultrasound
  • Spanish: ultrasonido — use of ultrasound
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