BACKGROUND NOISE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal

Synonyms:

background noise; ground noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("background noise" is a kind of...):

background; background signal (extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "background noise"):

surface noise (noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record)

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