sone

About 0.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
2. noun Obsolete spelling of son.

Similar words

loudness phon volume hypersound tonal noise standard siren shepard tone signal-to-noise ratio signal-to-noise phonon

Often followed by

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Word family

sones