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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Sabin

in reference to polio vaccine, 1955, from name of Russian-born U.S. microbiologist Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993).

Wiktionary
sabin

n. (context acoustics English) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.

WordNet
sabin

  1. n. a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound

  2. United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906) [syn: Albert Sabin, Albert Bruce Sabin]

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Sabin, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 421
Housing Units (2000): 158
Land area (2000): 0.302769 sq. miles (0.784167 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.302769 sq. miles (0.784167 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56554
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.778828 N, 96.653615 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56580
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Sabin

Sabin may refer to:

Places in the United States
  • Sabin, Minnesota, a city in Clay County, Minnesota
  • Sabin, Portland, Oregon, a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon
  • Sabin-Schellenberg Center, a technical skills center for the North Clackamas School District in Milwaukie, Oregon
  • Sabin, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the town of Sylvan, Wisconsin
  • Sabin Point Light, a lighthouse in Rhode Island
  • Sabin-Wheat Farm, a historic farmstead in Putney, Vermont
Places elsewhere
  • Sabin Etxea, the official headquarters of the Basque Nationalist Party
Other
  • Sabin (given name)
  • Sabin (surname)
  • Sabin Stakes, American Thoroughbred horse race held in Hallandale Beach, Florida
  • Sabin strains, polio vaccine variants developed by Albert Sabin
  • Sabin–Feldman dye test, a serologic test to diagnose for toxoplasmosis
  • Doo–Sabin subdivision surface in computer graphics
  • Sabin (unit), a unit of sound absorption
  • Sabin Figaro, fictional character in the video game Final Fantasy VI
Sabin (unit)

The sabin is defined as a unit of sound absorption. Sabins could be calculated with either imperial or metric units. One square foot of 100% absorbing material has a value of one imperial Sabin. One square metre of 100% absorbing material has a value of one metric Sabin. The unit is named in honor of Wallace Clement Sabine. The total absorption in metric sabins can be calculated by:

A=Sα+Sα+...+Sα=ΣSα

where

A = the absorption of the room (m metric sabin)

S = area of the actual surface (m)

α = absorption coefficient of the actual surface

Sabins are used in calculating the reverberation time of concert halls, lecture theatres and recording studios.

Sabin (given name)

Sabin is a given name of the following people

  • Sabin of Bulgaria, ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766
  • Sabin Bălașa (1932–2008), Romanian painter
  • Sabin Berthelot (1794–1880), French naturalist and ethnologist
  • Sabin Bornei (born 1975), Romanian boxer
  • Sabin Carr (1904–1983), American pole vaulter
  • Sabin Chaushev (born 1971), Bulgarian Olympic shooter
  • Sabin W. Colton (1847–1925), American investor
  • Sabin Cutaș (1968–), Romanian politician
  • Sabin Drăgoi (1894–1968), Romanian composer
  • Sabin-Cosmin Goia (born 1982), Romanian football defender
  • Sabin Howard, American classical figurative sculptor
  • Sabin Ilie (born 1975), Romanian football striker
  • Sabin Manuilă (1894–1964), Romanian statistician
  • Sabin Merino (born 1992), Spanish professional footballer
  • Sabin Rai (born 1974), Nepali singer and lyricist
  • Sabin Strătilă (born 1995), Romanian rugby union full-back
  • Sabin Willett (born 1957), American lawyer and novelist
Sabin (surname)

Sabin is the surname of the following people

  • Albert Sabin (1906–1993), Polish-American medical researcher who developed an oral polio vaccine
  • Alvah Sabin (1793–1885), American politician
  • Alec Sabin (born 1947), British actor
  • Alfred Sabin (1905–1982), English football player
  • Andrew Sabin (born 1958), British sculptor
  • Arthur Knowles Sabin (1879–1959), British writer, poet and printer
  • Cédric Sabin (born 1979), French football forward
  • Chauncey Brewer Sabin (1824–1890), United States federal judge
  • Chris Sabin (born 1982), American professional wrestler
  • Diane Sabin (born 1952), American feminist activist
  • Dmitry Sabin (born 1979), Ukrainian sprint canoer
  • Dwight M. Sabin (1843–1902), American politician
  • E. Rose Sabin, American author of fantasy and science fiction novels
  • Edwin L. Sabin (1870–1952), American author of boys adventure stories
  • Ellen Clara Sabin (1850–1949), American educator
  • Éric Sabin (born 1974), French-born Martiniquais football player
  • Florence R. Sabin (1871–1953), American medical scientist
  • George Myron Sabin (1833–1890), American jurist
  • Henry Sabin (1829–1918), American educator
  • Hib Sabin (born 1935), American sculptor and educator
  • Ibn Sab'in, a Sufi philosopher
  • Joseph Sabin (1821–1881), bibliographer
  • Mike Sabin (born 1968), New Zealand police officer, drug educator and politician
  • Oliver Sabin (born 1991), Scottish electronic music/chip music composer known as Unicorn Kid
  • Pauline Sabin (1887–1955), American founder of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
  • Philip Sabin, British military historian
  • Portia Sabin, American music industry executive
  • Roger Sabin, Enlgish writer
  • Wallace Arthur Sabin (1869–1937), American composer and organist
  • Warwick Sabin, American publisher
  • Wayne Sabin (1915–1989), American tennis player
  • William Warren Sabin (1861–1939), American architect

Usage examples of "sabin".

Sabin glanced back and tipped her a laconic salute from a now breadless hand.

Sabin meant she was not going to have a general debarcation, no celebration, no letting their dangerous cargo loose wholesale.

Sabin made adjustments as Radd provided specs and monitored the readouts.

Sabin seethed, wanting to be free of the shackles, but knowing Radd was right.

Then his perusal moved to Lionia, Radd, and Sabin, who stood outside the cockpit.

When Sereno and Lucio had ended the last revolution and thus brought peace, men like Sabin had been left rudderless.

He poured lemon sherbet for himself and Sabin and lifted the fluted cup to his lips.

Sabin continued to underwind the clocks, carefully allowing their mechanisms to slow, their springs to expand, their hands to shift less sharply, so that time itself geared down to a lazier pace.

Sabin clenched his fists but he succeeded in keeping his head down until the Atabeg had passed.

A woman wearing a white headcloth was selling piles of the laciest pancakes Sabin had ever seen with some kind of honey syrup drizzled over them.

With no time to waste, she had to use one of the lethean patches on Sabin at the first opportunity.

Sabin had been playing a game of merels with one of the older squires but, as Annais arrived, the youth rose, stretched, nodded to Sabin and went off to attend to his duties.

Sabin neither came to dine nor arrived to play dice or merels in the hall after the meal had finished.

Karen, Nim learned, had been stricken with poliomyelitis just one year before the Salk vaccine went into widespread use in North America and, with Sabin vaccine a few years later, wiped polio from the landscape.

Sneering at McCarthy today because the only people who call themselves Communists are harmless cranks is like sneering at the Sabin vaccine since, really, almost no one gets polio anymore.