Usually means: Unit measuring sound or signal intensity.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. decibel: Merriam-Webster
  2. decibel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decibel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decibel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decibel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decibel, decibel: Wordnik
  7. decibel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decibel: Wiktionary
  9. decibel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decibel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decibel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. decibel: Dictionary.com
  13. decibel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decibel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decibel (disambiguation), Decibel (magazine), Decibel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. decibel: Rhymezone
  17. decibel: FreeDictionary.org
  18. decibel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. decibel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. decibel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. decibel: CCI Computer
  2. Decibel: Game Dictionary
  3. decibel: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Decibel (Acoustics), decibel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. decibel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Decibel (Acoustics), decibel: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Decibel: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decibel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. decibel: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. decibel: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Explosives (No longer online)
  7. DECIBEL: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  8. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Decibel: Data Acquisition
  10. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  11. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  12. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  13. DECIBEL (dB): Power Engineering

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noun:  A common measure of sound intensity ratio that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = ⅒log₁₀(P₁ / P₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the relative powers of the sound.

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