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BACKGROUND NOISE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal
Synonyms:
background noise; ground noise
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("background noise" is a kind of...):
background; background signal (extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "background noise"):
surface noise (noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record)
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