PHON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phon mean? 

• PHON (noun)
  The noun PHON has 1 sense:

1. a unit of subjective loudness

  Familiarity information: PHON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of subjective loudness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

sound unit (any acoustic unit of measurement)

Meronyms (parts of "phon"):

sone (a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold)