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background level

n. the amplitude level of the undesired background noise [syn: noise level]

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Background level

Background level may refer to:

  • Background (astronomy)
  • Background radiation
  • Journalism sourcing

Usage examples of "background level".

Some other groups observed a few, a very few, neutrons, barely more than the normal background level.

The thermal radiation leaving a black hole with that temperature would be completely swamped by the general background level of radiation in the universe.

The first particle wave had arrived, swelled to a peak, and as swiftly subsided to its steady background level.

The effects everywhere else would be way below the natural background level that exists anyway.

Of course, there's a background level of radio noise from Earth-radio and television stations, aircraft, portable telephones, nearby and more distant spacecraft.

And it was no return to a past life because he saw Yellow Cabs - it was truly modern, a big city such as Mexico City itself, very busy, very noisy, but with the sounds somehow muted and at a constant background level of murmuring.