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GROUND NOISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ground noise mean?
• GROUND NOISE (noun)
The noun GROUND NOISE has 1 sense:
1. extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal
Familiarity information: GROUND NOISE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
background noise; ground noise
Hypernyms ("ground noise" is a kind of...):
background; background signal (extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ground noise"):
surface noise (noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record)
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