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Sound Pressure

Definition: Sound Pressure

Sound Pressure

Noun

1. The difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Sound Pressure

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

At a point, the total instantaneous pressure at that point in the presence of a sound wave minus the static pressure at that point. See effective sound pressure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Sound Pressure

Synonym: instantaneous sound pressure (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sound Pressure

Specialty definitions using "sound pressure": audiometric reference level, audiometric zeroclose-talking response, close-talking sensitivity, cochlear microphonic, cochlear microphonic poten- tialdigital audioequal loudness contours, equivalent sound intensity levelFlechter-Munson curvesintensity of noiselevel difference, loudness contour, loudness level, loudness level of noisemaximum sound pressure, meaningful noise, munsonneperpeak sound pressure, perceived noise level, pink noise, pressure amplitude, pressure microphonerate of decay, reference zero, rekrytering, root-mean-square sound pressuresensation level, sil, sound energy density, sound energy flux, sound exposure level, sound isolation between rooms, sound level, sound probe, specific acoustic impedance, speech interference levelthreshold of audibility, threshold of discomfort, threshold of feeling, threshold of pain, threshold of tickleunit area acoustic impedancevolume of noisewall impedance. (references)

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Expressions: Sound Pressure

Expressions using "sound pressure": instantaneous sound pressure sound pressure level. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sound Pressure

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sound pressure level

24

sound pressure

12

sound pressure level meter

4
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Modern Translation: Sound Pressure

Language Translations for "sound pressure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

NPA (sound pressure level), niveau de pression acoustique (sound pressure level). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hangnyomásszint (sound pressure level). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oundsay essurepray

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Anagrams: Sound Pressure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-u-u"

-2 letters: unpressured.

-3 letters: depressors, dournesses, responders, suspenders.

-4 letters: depressor, endorsers, espousers, ponderers, pressruns, pressured, pressures, repousses, repursued, repursues, responder, responses, sunderers, surrounds, suspender, suspenser, suspensor, undresses, unpressed.

-5 letters: deposers, dourness, dressers, duresses, endorser, endorses, ensurers, espoused, espouser, espouses, espresso, neuroses, perdures, perusers, ponderer, pounders, pressers, pressors, pressrun, pressure, prunuses, pureness, pursuers, reposers, repoured, repousse, repursue.

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Alternative Orthography: Sound Pressure


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 75 6E 64      50 72 65 73 73 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#80 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0075 006E 0064      0050 0072 0065 0073 0073 0075 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

538187807025084718585878471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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