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Phon vs Khon - What's the difference?

phon | khon |

As nouns the difference between phon and khon

is that phon is (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 while khon is a thai form of dance with music and narration.

phon

English

Noun

(phons)
  • (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.

    • khon

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 9, author=Jennifer Dunning, title=Hear Them Talk and See Them Dance, Then Watch Their Cultures Clash, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But he has found his perfect complement in Mr. Klunchun, a practitioner of khon , a form of classical Thai masked dance, who wanders serenely with Mr. Bel through a series of cultural collisions until the gentle cataclysm that suddenly and amusingly ends the conversation. }}