Definition of "aftersound" in Englisch

noun

1. A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it; the perception of such a sound.

2. (acoustics) The second, slower phase of decay in the sound made by a piano string when it is struck.

3. (phonetics, obsolete) A weaker sound that immediately follows a more salient one, such as the second, less prominent vowel sound in a falling diphthong.

   • 1881, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, “The simple sounds of all the living Slavonic languages compared with those of the principal Neo-Latin and Germano-Scandinavian Tongues,” Transactions of the Philological Society, 1880-1881, p. 377, In English I cannot hear the sound of Italian o chiuso, but only that of (o 5) followed by an aftersound, as in home, or without this aftersound, as in more.