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white noise
noun
1.
Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.
2.
Physics. random noise with a uniform frequency spectrum over a wide range of frequencies.
Origin:
1965–70
1965–70
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| white noise | |
| —n | |
| a. sound or electrical noise that has a relatively wide continuous range of frequencies of uniform intensity | |
| b. noise containing all frequencies rising in level by six decibels every octave | |
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Then you accompany the white noise with the light flash, and now the rat jumps higher than it does when it hears the noise alone.
Another test asked participants to work out the direction of specific sounds embedded within white noise.
White noise is defined as each frequency in the sound having equal energy throughout the spectrum.
Next you expose it to a burst of white noise, which predictably makes it jump.
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