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Sone vs Decibel - What's the difference?

sone | decibel |

As nouns the difference between sone and decibel

is that sone is while decibel is decibel.

sone

English

(wikipedia sone)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (acoustics) 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

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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.