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Noise - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Noise : (noun)
1: sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant
sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard
indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the
firework display that ended the gala the noise reached
98 decibels"
2: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality;
sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern
music is just noise to me" [syn: dissonance, racket]
3: electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb
communication [syn: interference, disturbance]
4: a loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of
the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it
was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by
making as loud a noise as he could"
5: incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or
meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech
concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
6: the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan [syn: randomness,
haphazardness, stochasticity]
(verb)
1: emit a noise [syn: make noise, resound]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Noise : \Noise\, n. [F. noise noisy strife, quarrel, brawl, fr. L.
nausea seasickness, sickness, disgust. See Nausea.]
1. Sound of any kind.
The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion
without noise to us perceived. --Bacon.
Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be
determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is
a confused mixture of many discordant sounds, like the
rolling of thunder or the noise of the waves.
Nevertheless, the difference between sound and noise is
by no means precise. --Ganot.
2. Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor;
din.
3. Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion;
rumor; report. ``The noise goes.'' --Shak.
What noise have we had about transplantation of
diseases and transfusion of blood! --T. Baker.
Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague
which has made so much noise in all ages.
--Spectator.
4. Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of
musicians; a band. [Obs.] --Milton.
The king has his noise of gypsies. --B. Jonson.
Syn: Cry; outcry; clamor; din; clatter; uproar.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Noise : \Noise\, v. i.
To sound; to make a noise. --Milton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Noise : \Noise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noised; p pr. & vb. n.
Noising.]
1. To spread by rumor or report.
All these sayings were noised abroad. --Luke i. 65.
2. To disturb with noise. [Obs.] --Dryden.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Noise :
Any part of a signal that is not the true or
original signal but is introduced by the communication
mechanism.
A common example would be an electrical signal travelling down
a wire to which noise is added by inductive and capacitive
coupling with other nearby signals (this kind of noise is
known as "{crosstalk").
A less obvious form of noise is quantisation noise, such as
the error between the true colour of a point in a scene in the
real world and its representation as a pixel in a digital
image.
(2003-07-05)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Noise |
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charlmoody: facebook group : singing loud when nobodies home then stopping suddenly when hearing a Noise. so true ;) Haha! |
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siopang: 去背的最佳工具...終究還是人眼啊..特別是黑色背景的黑色物體. 剛弄完3張4千X4千以上像素的圖, 現在感覺滿眼都是gaussian Noise http://plurk.com/p/30bd77 |
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beeveedee: I am amazed at the difference between photo taken with a D300 and one with a D200—much sharper, better at controlling Noise. #photography |
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