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| 1. | Bachelor of Divinity. |
| 2. | Domesday Book. |
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| 1. | a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar. |
| 2. | a unit of power ratio, the number of units being equal to a constant times the logarithm to the base 10 of the intensities of two sources. |
| 3. | a unit used to compare two voltages or currents, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the voltages or currents measured across equal resistances. Abbreviation: dB, db |
| day·book (dā'bŏŏk') n.
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| dB abbr. decibel |
| Db The symbol for the element dubnium. |
| DB abbr. daybook |
| de·ci·bel (děs'ə-bəl, -běl') n. Abbr. dB A unit used to express relative difference in power or intensity, usually between two acoustic or electric signals, equal to ten times the common logarithm of the ratio of the two levels. [deci- + bel.] |
| dub·ni·um (dōōb'nē-əm) n. Symbol Db An artificially produced radioactive element with atomic number 105 whose most long-lived isotopes have mass numbers of 258, 261, 262, and 263 with half-lives of 4.2, 1.8. 34, and 30 seconds, respectively. Also called unnilpentium. See Table at element. [After Dubna, Russia, the location of the United Institute of Nuclear Research.] |
A unit of measurement of the volume of sounds.
dB abbr.
decibel
decibel de·ci·bel (děs'ə-bəl, -běl')
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Abbr. dB
A unit used to express relative difference in power or intensity, usually between two acoustic or electric signals, equal to ten times the common logarithm of the ratio of the two levels.
| dB
Abbreviation of decibel |
| Db
The symbol for dubnium. |
| decibel (děs'ə-bəl) Pronunciation Key
A unit used to measure the power of a signal, such as an electrical signal or sound, relative to some reference level. An increase of ten decibels in the power of a signal is equivalent to increasing its power by a factor of ten. As a measure of sound intensity, a zero-decibel reference is stipulated to be the lowest level audible to the human ear; the speaking voice of most people ranges from 45 to 75 decibels. |
dubnium (d b'nē-əm) Pronunciation Key
Symbol Db A synthetic, radioactive element that is produced from californium, americium, or berkelium. Its most long-lived isotopes have mass numbers of 258, 261, 262, and 263 with half-lives of 4.2, 1.8. 34, and 30 seconds, respectively. Atomic number 105. See Periodic Table. |
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an artificially produced radioactive transuranium element in Group Vb of the periodic table, atomic number 105. The discovery of dubnium (element 105), like that of rutherfordium (element 104), has been a matter of dispute between Soviet and American scientists. The Soviets may have synthesized a few atoms of element 105 in 1967 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, U.S.S.R., by bombarding americium-243 with neon-22 ions, producing isotopes of element 105 having mass numbers of 260 and 261 and half-lives of 0.1 second and 3 seconds, respectively. Because the Dubna group did not propose a name for the element at the time they announced their preliminary data-a practice that has been customary following the discovery of a new element-it was surmised by American scientists that the Soviets did not have strong experimental evidence to substantiate their claims. Soviet scientists contended, however, that they did not propose a name in 1967 because they preferred to accumulate more data about the chemical and physical properties of the element before doing so. After completing further experiments, they proposed the name nielsbohrium.
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