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background noise

background noise noun: any sound other than the sound being monitored (the primary sound); a form of noise pollution or interference.

Noun

background noise (countable and uncountable, plural background noises)

  1. Any sound other than the sound being monitored (the primary sound); a form of noise pollution or interference.

background noise meaning in Tamil

background noise in Tamil

பின்னணி இரைச்சல், பின்னணிச்சத்தம்

Forms of background noise

pluralbackground noises

Questions about background noise

What does background noise mean?
Background noise means any sound other than the sound being monitored (the primary sound); a form of noise pollution or interference.
What is background noise in Tamil?
Background noise in Tamil is பின்னணி இரைச்சல், பின்னணிச்சத்தம். See Background noise meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is background noise?
Background noise is a noun.
What is the plural of background noise?
The plural of background noise is background noises.

Words near background noise in the dictionary

  1. background checks
  2. background fodder
  3. background investigation
  4. background investigations
  5. background music
  6. background noise
  7. background noises
  8. background process
  9. background processes
  10. background processing
  11. background radiation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: background noise (page history and authors); background noise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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