SONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sonic mean? 

• SONIC (adjective)
  The adjective SONIC has 2 senses:

1. (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level

2. relating to audible sound

  Familiarity information: SONIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SONIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level

Synonyms:

sonic; transonic

Context example:

a sonic boom

Antonym:

subsonic ((of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium)

supersonic ((of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to audible sound

Context example:

a sonic wave

Similar:

audible; hearable (heard or perceptible by the ear)

 Context examples 

The development of basal cell carcinoma is associated with constitutive activation of sonic hedgehog signaling.

(Basal Cell Carcinoma Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This allele, which encodes zinc finger protein GLI3, plays a role in the regulation of sonic hedgehog-dependent transcription of specific genes during the development of multiple organ systems.

(GLI3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The absence of Cc2d2a affected genes and proteins involved in the development of many mouse tissues, including sonic hedgehog, a key signaling protein.

(Protein critical to cilia development, NIH)

Sonic hedgehog binding to Patched appears to activate the 7-transmembrane protein Smoothened by release from Patched inhibition.

(Patched, NCI Thesaurus)

A novel proprietary small molecule, and a selective inhibitor of sonic hedgehog signaling pathway, with potential anti-tumor activity.

(IPI-609, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in transcriptional regulation and plays a role in sonic hedgehog signal transduction.

(GLI2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a regulatory role in limb development and is involved in sonic hedgehog signal transduction.

(GLI3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

When the outflowing gas collides with previously ejected gas from other stars, the collisions produce shock waves, similar to sonic booms, which permeate the area.

(Scientists Take Viewers to the Center of the Milky Way, NASA)

Encoded by human PTCH2 Gene (Patched Family), 1203-aa transmembrane protein Patched Homolog 2 is a possible sonic hedgehog receptor, highly similar to PTCH and containing an SSD domain, that may have a role formation of embryonic structures and in epidermal development.

(Patched Homolog 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Since much of the material being flung out from the shattered star has been heated by shock waves − similar to sonic booms from supersonic planes − passing through it, the remnant glows strongly in X-ray light.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)