Phon
[fon] /fɒn/
noun
1.
a unit for measuring the apparent loudness of a sound, equal in number for a given sound to the intensity in decibels of a sound having a frequency of 1000 cycles per second when, in the judgment of a group of listeners, the two sounds are of equal loudness.
1.
variant of before a vowel:
phonic.
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/fɒn/
noun
1.
a unit of loudness that measures the intensity of a sound by the number of decibels it is above a reference tone having a frequency of 1000 hertz and a root-mean-square sound pressure of 20 × 10–6 pascal
abbreviation
1.
Also phonet. phonetics
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phonology
phon- pref.
Variant of phono-.
phon
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