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Categories: Audio engineering, Audio electronics, Radio frequency propagation, Noise, Telecommunications engineering

decibel dB logit MSC TU

A logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity WordNet 3.0

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A logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The decibel is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel. Wikipedia

Unit of measurement. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Logarithmic unit expressing the ratio of a physical quantity Wikidata

A unit used to express relative difference on power, usually between acoustic or electric signals, equal to ten times the common logarithm of the ratio of the two level. OmegaWiki

A common measure of sound intensity ratio that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = 10 log10(P1 / P2), where P1 and P2 are the relative powers of the sound. Wiktionary

A common measure of sound intensity. Wiktionary (translation)

IS A

sound unit

non-SI unit mentioned in the SI

logarithmic unit

HAS KIND

dbV

MEASURED PHYSICAL QUANTITY

sound pressure level

level

NAMED AFTER

Bell