WordNet
n. any acoustic unit of measurement
Wikipedia
A sound unit is any acoustic unit of sound measurement.
- dB, decibel - noise of sound measurement is called decibels (dB). Ratio of the sound pressure to reference pressure to something.
- sone - a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold, starting with 1 sone.
- phon - a unit of subjective loudness.
- Hz, hertz = unit of sound frequency is called hertz (Hz)
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Usage examples of "sound unit".
Graphemes The ancient Arabic script, a naturally cursive script with up to four different forms for each letter (depending on its position-initial, medial, final, or uncon nected-m a word), has, through millennia of usage been streamlined and at times arbitrarily restructured so that it has come to be an alphabetic script with only one form of a letter per sound unit This latest innovation was attributed to the planetologist Liet-Kynes during his stay on Arrakis with the Fremen tribes Other pnor innovations included the introduction of symbols to represent vowels (ancient Arabic script indicated short vowels only by infrequently used diacritical marks) attributed to Ah Ben Ohasi and later modi fied by the Fremen in the fast copies of their desert survival manual, the Kitab al Ibar The Fremen script in use during die time of Muad'Dib is shown below Many of the values of .
Lacey had announced his presence by having the CS Net override every sound unit in the suite, ordering the occupants to unlock immediately or face arrest.
He was equipped with an excellent diaphragm, and the presence of overtones in the sound unit robbed him of much of that metallic flatness that marks the usual robot voice.
Their wounded are scattered all along the lake shore and that regiment on the ridge appears to be the only sound unit left.