SOUND UNIT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any acoustic unit of measurement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("sound unit" is a kind of...):

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sound unit"):

B; Bel (a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels)

dB; decibel (a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity)

sone (a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold)

phon (a unit of subjective loudness)