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SOUND UNIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any acoustic unit of measurement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("sound unit" is a kind of...):
unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sound unit"):
B; Bel (a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels)
dB; decibel (a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity)
sone (a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold)
phon (a unit of subjective loudness)
