white noise

noise which is constant and unchanging

TRANSLATION

... in der Nachrichtentechnik. Weißes Rauschen belegt alle Frequenzen mit gleicher Lautstärke (im Gegensatz zu 'normalem' Rauschen oder etwa 'rosa Rauschen'). Harald S. (LEO Forum) weißes Rauschen LEO Rauschstörung woerterbuch.info

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IN THE PRESS

White noise = While veteran rocker Pete Townshend blames his hearing loss on a lifetime spent using headphones, experts say today's iPod Generation is storing up trouble for the future by listening to music at high volumes. Is this a crisis in the making?

(BBC News - 5th January 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4580718.stm

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know?

white noise
noun

- noise containing many frequencies with equal intensities.

(By analogy with white light, which contains light from the whole range of visible frequencies.)

Did you know that there is also pink, red, brown, blue, purple, and grey noise?


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