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background noises

background noises is the plural of background noise.

Meaning of background noise

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.

Questions about background noises

What is background noises the plural of?
Background noises is the plural of background noise.

Words near background noises in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: background noises (page history and authors); background noise (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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