# Sound (disambiguation)

Sound is an audible mechanical wave propagating through matter, or the perception of such waves by the brain.
Sound or Sounds may also refer to:

## Geography

* Sound (geography), a large ocean inlet, or a narrow ocean channel between two bodies of land
* Sound, Cheshire
* Sound, Lerwick in Shetland
* Sound Heath, an area of common land in Sound, Cheshire
* Milford Sound, a fjord in the South Island of New Zealand
* Øresund or Öresund, commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden).

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Literature

* "Sounds" (short story), a short story by Vladimir Nabokov
* Klänge (English translation: Sounds), a 1912 book by Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky

### Music
#### Groups

* Sound (band), a Filipino jazz band (formed 1999)
* The Sound (band), a defunct English post-punk band (from 1979 to 1988)
* The Sounds, a Swedish indie-rock band (formed 1999)

#### Albums

* Sound (Dreadzone album), a 2001 studio album by the British fusion band Dreadzone
* Sound (Roscoe Mitchell album), a 1966 studio album by the American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell
* Sounds!, a 1966 album by guitarist Jack Marshall and percussionist Shelly Manne
* Sounds (Spare Snare album), a 2018 album by Scottish lofi band Spare Snare

#### Genres

* Sound (cumbia), a Chilean musical genre similar to tecnocumbia
* Sound, a music subgenre or "scene", such as the Nashville sound

#### Other uses in music

* "Sound" (song), a 1991 single by the English rock band James
* Soundtrack, the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game
* "The Sound", a song by Swans from Soundtracks for the Blind

### Television

* Sound (TV series), a BBC programme featuring current popular music of different genres, aired between 2007 and 2009
* Sounds (TV series), an Australian music television series of the 1970s and 1980s

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Sounds (magazine), a defunct British music weekly newspaper, published between 1970 and 1991
* Soundwave (Transformers), one of the Decepticons in The Transformers universe
* BBC Sounds, an audio streaming and download service

## Sports

* Austin Sound, an American women's gridiron football team
* Memphis Sounds, a defunct basketball team of the American Basketball Association
* Nashville Sounds, a Minor League Baseball team in the International League of Triple-A
* Seattle Sounders, an American professional soccer club. Also, the name of two now defunct professional clubs.
* Sound FC (women), a current Women's Premier Soccer League team.
* Sound FC (men), an American soccer team.

## Other uses

* Sound (medical instrument), an instrument for probing and dilating passages within the body
* Sound (nautical), a verb meaning to take depth readings of fluids in a tank or around a ship
* Sound (sex toy), a sex toy designed to be inserted through the urethra of the penis for sexual pleasure
* Sound, the act of diving by a whale
* Soundness, a logical term meaning that an argument is valid and its premises are true
* Speech sound or phone, a speech segment analyzed below the phonemic level