单词 | grey noise |
释义 | > as lemmasgrey noise grey noise n. (originally) noise in which the energy is inversely proportional to frequency; = pink noise n. at pink n.5 and adj.2 Compounds 2c; (later also) noise in which the energies of component frequencies are such that the noise is perceived as equally loud throughout the frequency range; also figurative and in extended use.The spectrum of grey noise in the later sense shows higher energy at high and low frequencies, where the ear's sensitivity is less, and lower energy at middle frequencies. It differs from white noise, where the energy intensities are equal throughout the frequency range but are not perceived as such, and from pink noise, where they diminish as the frequency increases. ΚΠ 1955 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 68 654 In 1948, Miller and Taylor reported a series of experiments with interrupted (fluttering) white or gray noise. 1965 U.S. Patent 3,199,048 4 An effective tone control results, and so called ‘grey noise’, that is, white noise with attenuated high frequencies, is produced. 1984 Poetry July 190 It's Saturday with the gray Noise of rain at the window. 2008 S. Paretsky Bleeding Kansas xxii. 159 How did the pioneers stand it, that vast expanse of prairie, where..land and sky and wind blurred into a ball of gray noise? 2012 D. M. Donesky in L. Chlan & M. I. Hertz Integrative Therapies Lung Health & Sleep iv. 75 At every level of treadmill exercise, perceived ‘respiratory effort’ was lower in patients with COPD while listening to music than while listening to gray noise or silence. < as lemmas |
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