loudness

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural loudnesses)

the perceptual strength or amplitude of sound pressure, measured in sones or phons
the physical strength of the sound pressure level, measured in decibels

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loud +‎ -ness

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When two notes are not quite in unison the resulting sound is found to alternate between a maximum and minimum of loudness recurring periodically.
- Sounds differ from each other only in the three respects of loudness, pitch and quality.
- Various devices have been successfully employed for making sounds of determinate loudness in order to test the hearing of partially deaf people.
But the converse, the measurement of the loudness of a sound not produced at our will, is by no means so easy.
We certainly do not wish to measure its loudness, and even if we did it might be difficult to fix on any unit of noisiness.

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