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antinoise

a. 1 Intended to reduce environmental noise. 2 (context of a noise English) Capable of neutralizing another noise. n. A sound wave, of the same amplitude but of opposite phase to that of an unwanted sound, that can neutralize the unwanted sound using destructive interference.

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Gaines belted it on, and accepted a helmet, into which he crammed his head, leaving the antinoise ear flaps up.

Gaines was beginning to feel somewhat hopeful of a reasonably bloodless victory, when he noticed a change in the pervading throb of machinery which penetrated even through the heavy antinoise pads of his helmet.

Sometimes, like now, the antinoise generators failed to hide unwanted sounds.

Lacking the same antinoise features herself, she had to agree to be snap-frozen to a few Kelvin, three minutes before each run.

To counter this, the design team created an antinoise generator, a device that matched the frequency of the sound waves and produced waves of its own at the exact opposite amplitude.

Overlying this, almost overpowering it, was a liquid whooshing that was somewhere between wind and river, a strange antinoise that made everything seem as if it were happening in a vacuum instead of the real world.