[user104658]

Originally Posted by Anaesthesia

The whole "does it make a sound" is due to semantics, and our crafted word for a vibration to hit our eardrums. If it ain't hitting our eardrums, it isn't sound as we would perceive it.

Does the wave have an impact on inanimate objects? Of course it does. But because inanimate objects don't have eardrums, it would be incorrect to describe it as a sound.

Not necessarily, though, because there's nothing else you could describe it as. The vibrations that would be created are "sound waves", there's nothing else to call them. Sound waves are sound waves, in the same way that radio waves are radio waves, micro waves are micro waves, etc.

We can't perceive most of the wavelength spectrum at all (without electronic help) but each wave still is what it is. I don't see why that wouldn't apply to sound.