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white noise

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a sound containing a blend of all the audible frequencies distributed equally over the range of the frequency band

Origin: by analogy with white light

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noun

Acoustical or electrical noise of which the intensity is the same at all frequencies within a given band.

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Origin: From the analogy with white light

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