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sone

Pronunciation: /soʊn/

The English word “sone” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. 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

Etymology

From Latin sonus (“sound”).

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