Sabin vs Savin - What's the difference?
sabin | savin |
(acoustics) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
*2012 , (Rupert Christiansen), ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review , Sep 2012:
*:Sabine gave his name to the sabin , the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.
The evergreen shrub , endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana .
As nouns the difference between sabin and savin
is that sabin is a unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin while savin is the evergreen shrub species: Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.As a proper noun Sabin
is {{surname}.sabin
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(wikipedia sabin)Noun
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*savin
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(wikipedia savin) (Juniperus sabina) (Juniperus virginiana)Noun
(en noun)- th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine , and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].