sone
noun/soʊn/
Frequency rank: #19,062 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
A unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000 Hz tone at 40 decibels.
Example sentence
The engineer measured the loudness of the fan at exactly one sone.
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