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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone perceived to be as loud as the sound being measured.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Abbreviations of phonetics.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun acoustics A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of subjective loudness

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German, from Greek phōnē, sound; see phone.]

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  1. sound unit

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Forms

  1. phonning
  2. phons

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