Sonic

Sonic may refer to:

Companies

• Sonic Drive-In, fast food restaurant chain in the United States
• Sonic.net, a full-service internet provider and CLEC, serving the San Francisco Bay Area
• Sonic Foundry, a computer software company which develops programs for editing audio and video
• Sonic Healthcare, a company that provides laboratory pathology and radiology services
• Sonic Software, operating unit of Progress Software
• Sonic Solutions, company operating in digital-media markets
• Sonic Team, developer of computer games and video games
• SONIC, an in-house brand used by Federated Co-operatives member co-operatives in Canada

Music

• Sonic Enemy, a record label
• Sonic Youth, alternative rock band
• Sonic Syndicate, melodic metalcore band
• Supersonic (album), and its 1998 hit single "Supersonic" by American female rap trio J. J. Fad
• CHDI-FM, an independently-owned radio station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, currently named SONiC 102.9
• CFUN-FM, a radio station in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, currently named SONiC.

Science and technology

• -sonic-, a prefix/infix/suffix for words with meanings that relate to acoustics.
• Sonic boom, an audible component of a shock wave in air
• Supersonic and hypersonic speeds
• Sonic hedgehog, a gene and protein named after Sonic the Hedgehog

Sports

• Seattle SuperSonics, a former National Basketball Association team
• Sonic Motor Racing Services, an Australian motor racing team

Miscellaneous

• Sonic (train), the name of a Japanese express train
• SonicStage, computer program
• Sonic screwdriver, fictional tool in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
• Sonic shower, Star Trek technology that uses sonic pulse vibrations to remove dirt from the body
• Theory of sonics a branch of continuum mechanics.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (disambiguation)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (character), a video game character
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (series), his associated video game series
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (video game), the first video game of the aforementioned series
• Sonic aka Sonik Clique, a computer demo group
• Chevrolet Sonic, the North American successor to the Chevrolet Aveo

See also

• Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog
• Sonic X
• Sonic The Movie