Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sonification

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English

Syllables: soni-fi-ca-tion
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The process of sonifying.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In another project, Weather sonification (Flowers and al., 2001), the correlation is made between different types of data, such as air pressure and temperature, with musical instruments."
"Sonification is a subset of a larger field called Auditory Display, which examines how sound can be used as the main conduit for conveying, understanding, and relaying information."
"Over the past 20 years, there have been many explorations and examples of sonifications."
"As such, the mappings for direct data sonification should be straightforward in order to provide an intuitive correlation between brain activity and sound."

Etymology

From sonify + -ification.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: sonify

Usage

Inflected Forms

sonifications (plural)

Questions

What does sonification mean?: The process of sonifying.
Where does sonification come from?: From sonify + -ification.

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