ultrasound

English

Etymology

ultra- +‎ sound

Noun

ultrasound (countable and uncountable, plural ultrasounds)

(physics) Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.
(medicine) The use of ultrasonic waves for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

Antonyms

(physics): infrasound

Related terms

ultrasonic, ultrasonics

Translations

sound

Afrikaans: ultraklank
Arabic: اَلْمَوْجَات فَوْقَ الصَّوْتِيَّة‎ f pl (al-mawjāt fawqa ṣ-ṣawtiyya)
Armenian: ուլտրաձայն (hy) (ultrajayn)
Asturian: ultrasoníu m
Bashkir: ультразвук (ul’trazvuk)
Basque: ultrasoinu
Belarusian: ультрагук m (ulʹtrahuk)
Bulgarian: ултразвук m (ultrazvuk)
Burmese: နှုန်းလွန်အသံလှိုင်း (hnun:lwan-a.samhluing:)
Catalan: ultrasò m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 超聲波 (ciu¹ sing¹ bo¹), 超音波 (ciu¹ jam¹ bo¹)

Mandarin: 超聲波 (zh), 超声波 (zh) (chāoshēngbō), 超音波 (zh) (chāoyīnbō)

Min Nan: 超音波 (zh-min-nan) (chhiau-im-pho)
Cornish: ughson m
Czech: ultrazvuk (cs) m
Danish: ultralyd (da) c
Dhivehi: އަލްޓްރާ ސައުންޑް‎ (alṭrā saunḍ)
Dutch: ultrageluid n
Esperanto: ultrasono
Estonian: ultraheli
Finnish: ultraääni (fi)
French: ultrason (fr) m
Galician: ultrasón m
Georgian: ულტრაბგერა (ulṭrabgera)
German: Ultraschall (de) m
Greek: υπέρηχος (el) m (ypérichos)
Hebrew: אולטרה סאונד‎
Hindi: अल्ट्रासाउंड (alṭrāsā'uṇḍ)
Hungarian: ultrahang (hu)
Interlingua: ultrasono
Italian: ultrasuono (it) m
Japanese: 超音波 (ja) (ちょうおんぱ, chōonpa)
Kannada: ಅಲ್ಟ್ರಾಸೌಂಡ್ (alṭrāsauṇḍ)
Kazakh: ультрадыбыс (wlʹtradıbıs)
Korean: 초음파 (ko) (cho-eumpa) (超音波 (ko))
Kyrgyz: ультразвук (ulʹtrazvuk)

Latvian: ultraskaņa f
Lithuanian: ultragarsas m
Luxembourgish: Ultraschall m
Macedonian: ултразвук m (ultrazvuk)
Malay: ultrabunyi
Northern Sami: ultrajietna
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ultralyd (no) n

Nynorsk: ultraljod n
Persian: فراصوت‎ (fa)
Polish: ultradźwięk (pl) m
Portuguese: ultrassom (pt) m
Romanian: ultrasunet (ro) m
Russian: ультразву́к (ru) m (ulʹtrazvúk)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̏лтразвӯк m

Roman: ȕltrazvūk (sh) m
Slovak: ultrazvuk m
Slovene: ultrazvok m
Spanish: ultrasonido (es) m
Swedish: ultraljud (sv) n
Tagalog: lakdawnugan
Tajik: ультрасадо (ulьtrasado)
Tamil: மீயொலி (mīyoli)
Tatar: ультратавыш (ul’tratawış)
Telugu: అతిధ్వనులు (te) (atidhvanulu)
Thai: อัลตราซาวนด์ (andtrâasaawohn)
Turkish: ultrason (tr), yansılanım (tr)
Turkmen: ultrases
Ukrainian: ультразвук (uk) m (ulʹtrazvuk)
Uzbek: ultratovush (uz)
Vietnamese: siêu âm (vi)
Welsh: uwchsain f
Western Panjabi: الٹرا ساؤنڈ‎
Yakut: ультразвук (ul’trazvuk)
Yiddish: אולטראַשאַל‎ (ultrashal)

use of ultrasound

Finnish: ultraäänihoito (therapy); ultraäänitutkimus (fi), ultraäänikuvaus (diagnosis), ultraääni (fi)

Verb

ultrasound (third-person singular simple present ultrasounds, present participle ultrasounding, simple past and past participle ultrasounded)

(transitive, intransitive) To treat with ultrasound.

Hyponyms

ultrasonicate

Anagrams

undulators

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