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Every possible motion is either progressive, rotary, or vibratory. A sufficiently rapid vibratory motion that is strong enough to affect the hearing organ is a sound.
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Chladni uses the term vitesse here, which could also mean velocity. Since he is referring to the rate at which the signal changes its shape, it is appropriately translated as frequency.—RTB
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Chladni, E.F.F. (2015). Preliminary Observations. In: Treatise on Acoustics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20361-4_1
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