What is noise?

  • (noun): Incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks.
    Example: "All the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Noise

In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound.

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Noise FM 876
... Noise FM is an Australian radio station that operates on the FM band in Ballarat, Victoria ... Noise FM's on air format is a fresh new mix of Alternative, Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, R B, Rap and Dance ... Noise FM sold their Victorian Low Power FM licences to Christian based broadcast group Lifeinfo Media, which is an Australian based not for profit service ...
NOi SE
... This article is about NOiSE the manga ... For other uses, see Noise (disambiguation) ... NOiSE Musubi on top of early silicon creatures NOiSE (ノイズ) Genre Cyberpunk Manga Written by Tsutomu Nihei Published by Kodansha English publisher ...
Bourbon Street - Issues
... Historically noise violations were the responsibility of the party making the noise. 615 Bourbon Street." The case ruled that the property owner, not the noise-maker is responsible for noise violations ... Besides being difficult to enforce, music aficionados claim that noise ordinances threaten the city's music culture ...
Non-acoustic Noise - Noisy Genes
... Main article Cellular noise The activity and regulation of our genes are also subject to noise ... Transcriptional noise refers to the variability in gene activity between cells in genetically identical populations (even identical twins are non-identical) ... Noise in gene activity has tremendous consequences on cell behaviour, and must be mitigated or integrated ...
Underwater Acoustics - Measurements - Ambient Noise
... determined partly by the signal processing used and partly by the level of background noise ... Ambient noise is that part of the received noise that is independent of the source, receiver and platform characteristics ... This it excludes reverberation and towing noise for example ...

More definitions of "noise":

  • (noun): Sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).
    Example: "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"
  • (noun): A loud outcry of protest or complaint.
    Example: "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"
  • (noun): The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.
    Example: "Modern music is just noise to me"
    Synonyms: dissonance, racket

Famous quotes containing the word noise:

    I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
    John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
    Mother Teresa (b. 1910)

    I’ve almost gained my heav’nly home; My spirit loudly sings;
    The holy ones behold they come, I hear the noise of wings.
    O come, angel band, Come and around me stand.
    O bear me away on your snowy wings, To my immortal home.
    T. Haskell, minister and hymn-writer. Published in Christian Harmony. “Angel Band,” l. 5-8.