BEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bel mean? 

• BEL (noun)
  The noun BEL has 2 senses:

1. a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels

2. Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil

  Familiarity information: BEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

B; Bel

Hypernyms ("Bel" is a kind of...):

sound unit (any acoustic unit of measurement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)

 Context examples 

C. perfringens is a food borne pathogen, being the causative agent of pig-bel syndrome and gas gangrene.

(Clostridium perfringens, NCI Thesaurus)

Particularly, Bel is used as a unit of relative sound intensity.

(Bel, NCI Thesaurus)

In Belém, the capital of Pará, it is estimated that 200,000 liters of açaí are consumed per day during harvest season ‒ double the quantity consumed in other seasons.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

For example, the gases emitted by our cars pass through a catalyst to make them less harmful to the environment and our health, comments Belén Rubio Ruiz of the UGR.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)