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ELI5: Are sound waves as big as they are in diagrams?

How big are sound waves?

You’ve got all these kinds of waves, square, sine, saw blah blah. At least when I was getting into sound design you spend some time looking at the supposed sound waves. Also on diagrams where you see sound waves, are they actually that big going into your ear?
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The wavelengths of audible sound are between 17 mm and 17 m, but sound travels as a compression wave, not a sin wave like light. Thing is, compression waves are hard to visualize or write down, so a sin wave is used with the same wavelength. Best visualization I’ve seen for sound waves is a Slinky stretched out, then you pull and release a portion from one end and watch the ripple travel along its length. 

So if you’re talking about “are sound wavelength large enough to see (if they were visible at all)?” Then yes.