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sabins

sabins is the plural of sabin.

Meaning of sabin

Noun

sabin (plural sabins)

  1. (acoustics) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
    • Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.2012 Sep, Rupert Christiansen, “Quiet, Please”, in Literary Review

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Questions about sabins

What is sabins the plural of?
Sabins is the plural of sabin.

Words near sabins in the dictionary

  1. Sabinians
  2. sabino
  3. sabinol
  4. sabinols
  5. sabinos
  6. sabins
  7. Sabio
  8. Sabios
  9. sabiporide
  10. sabir
  11. Sabirabad

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