- white noise
- white noise "sound made up of a random mixture of frequencies and intensities," attested by 1970.
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white noise
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white noise — noun uncount the unpleasant noise made by a radio or television when it is not receiving the correct signal … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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white noise — ► NOUN Physics ▪ noise containing many frequencies with equal intensities … English terms dictionary
white noise — n. [by analogy with WHITE LIGHT] a sound containing a blend of all the audible frequencies distributed equally over the range of the frequency band … English World dictionary
White Noise — White Noise, weißes Rauschen … Universal-Lexikon
