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The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.
Leonard Mlodinow

Meaning of "loudness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOUDNESS

loudness  [ˈlaʊdnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOUDNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Loudness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LOUDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Loudness

Loudness is the characteristic of a sound that is primarily a psychological correlate of physical strength. More formally, it is defined as "that attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which sounds can be ordered on a scale extending from quiet to loud". Loudness, a subjective measure, is often confused with objective measures of sound strength such as sound pressure, sound pressure level, sound intensity or sound power. Filters such as A-weighting attempt to adjust sound measurements to correspond to loudness as perceived by the typical human. However, loudness perception is a much more complex process than A-weighting. Loudness is also affected by parameters other than sound pressure, including frequency, bandwidth and duration.

Definition of loudness in the English dictionary

The first definition of loudness in the dictionary is high volume. Other definition of loudness is sound level; volume. Loudness is also rowdiness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LOUDNESS


awkwardness
ˈɔːkwədnɪs
baldness
ˈbɔːldnɪs
blindness
ˈblaɪndnɪs
boldness
ˈbəʊldnɪs
fondness
ˈfɒndnɪs
goodness
ˈɡʊdnɪs
hardness
ˈhɑːdnɪs
indebtedness
ɪnˈdɛtɪdnɪs
kindness
ˈkaɪndnɪs
madness
ˈmædnɪs
mindedness
ˈmaɪndɪdnɪs
preparedness
prɪˈpɛərɪdnɪs
redness
ˈrɛdnɪs
rudeness
ˈruːdnɪs
sadness
ˈsædnɪs
soundness
ˈsaʊndnɪs
tiredness
ˈtaɪədnɪs
weirdness
ˈwɪədnɪs
wickedness
ˈwɪkɪdnɪs
Widnes
ˈwɪdnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOUDNESS

lotusland
lou
Lou Gehrig´s disease
louche
louchely
loud
loud-hailer
loud-mouthed
louden
loudish
loudly
loudmouth
loudspeaker
loudspeaker van
lough
Lough Allen
Lough Neagh
Loughborough
louis
louis d´or

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOUDNESS

blandness
boundedness
business
centeredness
coldness
color blindness
conceitedness
connectedness
frowardness
giftedness
gladness
grandness
light-headedness
nakedness
narrow-mindedness
night blindness
relatedness
rootedness
straightforwardness
stupidness
unkindness

Synonyms and antonyms of loudness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «loudness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOUDNESS

Find out the translation of loudness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of loudness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «loudness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

响度
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sonoridad
570 millions of speakers

English

loudness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

loudness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بريق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

громкости
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

loudness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দের মাত্রা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intensité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketegangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lautstärke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

音の大きさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Banter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sức mạnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உரப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आवाज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gürültü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rumorosità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

głośności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гучності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intensitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ένταση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

luidheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

loudness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

loudness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of loudness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOUDNESS»

The term «loudness» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.296 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOUDNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «loudness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «loudness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about loudness

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2 QUOTES WITH «LOUDNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word loudness.
1
Benoit Mandelbrot
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
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Leonard Mlodinow
The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOUDNESS»

Discover the use of loudness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to loudness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Loudness
In fact, loudness is essential for enjoying the dynamics of music. Thus, loudness is a pervasive and complex issue, and one that needs to be examined from a wide range of perspectives, and that is the purpose of this volume.
Mary Florentine, Arthur Popper, Richard R. Fay, 2010
2
Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models
Loudness belongs to the category of intensity sensations. The stimulussensa- tion relation cannot be constructed from the just-noticeable intensity variations directly, but has to be obtained from results of other types of measurement such as ...
Hugo Fastl, Eberhard Zwicker, 2007
3
Predicting the Loudness Discomfort Level from the Acoustic ...
Results revealed no significant relationship between measures of the acoustic reflex and loudness.
Justine Marie Cannavo, 2008
4
Loudness function derived from data on electrical discharge ...
Judgements of the loudness of pure-tone sound stimuli yield a loudness function which relates perceived loudness to stimulus amplitude.
Walton L. Howes, Lewis Research Center, 1973
5
Signals, Sound, and Sensation
Among the concepts that he developed there were the scaling of loudness, equal -loud- ness contours, loudness summation, the articulation index, and the critical band. His research group applied its experience in the invention of the ...
William M. Hartmann, 1997
6
Hearing Aids
Choosing a threshold-based or loudness-based procedure? There are theoretical and/or practical arguments for basing prescription on either threshold or supra-threshold measures. Complexities in truly normalizing the loudness of speech ...
Harvey Dillon, 2001
7
Communication Disorders
Alternate-Binaural Loudness-Balance Test. Many audiologists consider the altemate-binaural loudness-balance test the only direct measure of loudness recruitment. Recruitment is an abnormal or nonlinear increase in perceived loudness just ...
R. W. Rieber, 1981
8
Hearing
Notice that when ESIG = ETHRQ the specific loudness is 0. Hence, near absolute threshold, a small change in excitation produces a large proportional change in specific loudness. Equation (4) can account, therefore, for the steep ...
Brian C.J. Moore, 1995
9
Foundations of Perception
curve shows that loudness matches are still possible at standard intensities in excess of 100 dB, indicating that the human auditory system has a very wide dynamic range. It can be seen that equal-loudness contours tend to follow the absolute ...
George Mather, 2006
10
Sensation and Perception
The key to understanding these distributions is to realize that the value labeled “ Perceptual effect (loudness)” on the horizontal axis is what the person experiences on each trial. Thus, in an experiment in which the person is asked to indicate ...
E. Goldstein, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOUDNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term loudness is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Neuroscience Of Why Screams Are So Terrifying - Science 2.0
Conventional thinking suggested that what sets screams apart from other sounds are their loudness or high pitch. However, many sounds that ... «Science 2.0, Jul 15»
2
Volicon IBC2015 Product Preview | TvTechnology
With commercial and program loudness being legislated worldwide and with growing interest in loudness normalization across Europe, ... «TV Technology, Jul 15»
3
Second Thought Theatre's Othello harder on ears than emotions …
Let me clarify: There are moments in Othello where the loudness works. Flores' electric music choice, which comes too infrequently between ... «CultureMap Dallas, Jul 15»
4
Is inaudible noise making you deaf? | Health24
"In all these areas, we have to deal with considerable levels of loudness in some cases," Christian Koch adds. Read: New clues to reversing ... «Health24, Jul 15»
5
In Plain Sanskrit | ArtsHub Australia - Performing ArtsHub
Her sister's strength in her dancing and Kav P's drum combined to see a rare tableau of woman as a force of power, of loudness and of ... «ArtsHub, Jul 15»
6
Minnesota Vikings: US Bank Stadium louder than Metrodome?
The loudness war in NFL stadiums has become a real thing thanks to places like Seattle and Kansas City where the fans compete to see who ... «The Viking Age, Jul 15»
7
How Noise Became Music - The New Yorker
Since then, there's been a debate over the effects of the “loudness wars” on our ability to appreciate nuance, particularly the dynamic range ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
8
Screams really do scare us: Study
Normal speech patterns only have slight differences in loudness (between 4 and 5 Hz), but screams can modulate very fast (varying between ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
9
Roanoke Police officers shoot a man after he points gun | Video …
"at times we fee threatened, we feel endangered, you know by the gathering of people and by the loudness and the noise and so forth. «WDBJ7, Jul 15»
10
Louisville specialist helps transgender people with key part of …
She also trains loudness and projection; articulation (men tend to mumble more), pacing (women tend to talk faster), phrasing (women tend to ... «Boulder Daily Camera, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Loudness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/loudness>. Apr 2024 ».
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