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noise meaning

EN[nɔɪz] [-ɔɪz]
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WNoise
  • Noise means any unwanted sound. Sounds, particularly loud ones, that disturb people or make it difficult to hear wanted sounds, are noise.
  • Acoustic noise can be anything from quiet but annoying to loud and harmful.
  • Roland Barthes also observes that noise can be perceived either physiologically or psychologically. We perceive noise physiologically when we "hear" it. On the other hand, when we "listen" to a noise we are doing this psychologically.
  • Sound intensity follows an inverse square law with distance from the source; doubling the distance from a noise source reduces its intensity by a factor of four, or 6 dB.
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  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Nouns
      • Countable nouns
      • Verbs
        • Intransitive verbs
          • Transitive verbs
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        1. fr noise
        2. en noises
        3. fr noises
        4. en noised
        5. en noisest
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of noise for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "noise" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.
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