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Db vs Decibel - What's the difference?

db | decibel |

As nouns the difference between db and decibel

is that db is database while decibel is decibel.

As a proper noun db

is deutsche bahn (german railways).

db

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • database
  • dead body

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Deutsche Bahn (German Railways)

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    decibel

    English

    (wikipedia decibel)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A common measure of sound intensity that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = 10 * log10(P 1/P 2), where P1 and P2 are the relative powers of the sound.