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It's a distinct regime, so useful to give it a distinc name. Super and hyper are roughly synonyms, but super was already taken. There was also some precedence
by magicalhippo 1y ago
It's a distinct regime, so useful to give it a distinc name. Super and hyper are roughly synonyms, but super was already taken.
There was also some precedence from wave research back in 1938 which suggested hypersonic and ultrasonic for high frequency waves[1].
At this point it's a well-established term, with 60 years of history[2].
[1]: https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Volumes/seca/007/03/0163-0176.pdf https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Volumes/seca/007/03/0163-0176.p...
[2]: https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/V35-N04/35-04-Van%20Wie.pdf https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/...
- growlNark 1y ago> Super and hyper are roughly synonyms Perhaps you're right in terms of how they're leveraged in today's society. I'll drop my pedantry.
- magicalhippo 1y agoThey roughly have the same meaning in the languages they were borrowed from, Latin[1] and Greek[2] respectively. Yeah it's random, but established at this point. The radio bands aren't much better[3] with their Very High Frequency (VHF), Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and Super High Frequency (SHF) and Extremely High Frequency (EHF). [1]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/super- https://www.etymonline.com/word/super- [2]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/hyper- https://www.etymonline.com/word/hyper- [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_spectrum#ITU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_spectrum#ITU