background noise
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3.5
- noun
- Specialized
:
ruido de fondo
- There were no significant main effects for list or presence of background noise.
- the presence of background noise
- reduce background noise
- background noise level
So it's not as bad, but there's just a lot of background noise that is on campus.
- So it's not as bad, but there's just a lot of background noise that is on campus.
- As long as you can hear what they're saying, all the background noise doesn't matter.
- It can transmit over top of this kind of background noise, but it's slow and it's unreliable.
- Sure enough, there's stuff above background noise.
- It was trained on voice data with background noise and is eventually intended to target reduction of background noise for in game voice chat or for streaming.
- There was some significant background noise at some points in our conversation, but I did my best to cut this out.
- So if there's a nice background noise, broad spectrum, it can even be pink noise, which means lower noise spectrum.
- But there's some cases where the background noise that goes into creating the product is so strong that you have to consider that too.
- It was this really uneasy kind of background noise of a footsteps of the soldiers just marching us and people just shuffling because it was the whole entire town.
- Try to get some rest, put some soothing music as a background noise and get some rest, Get some.
- Honestly I couldn't tell if this thumbnail thing was a serious problem or just more background noise from haters.
- Now I personally don't find music much of A distraction because it's such background noise to me that it doesn't really help.
- I mean, all the, it's the same as, you know, they just put a new name on it and it, it, it remains the sort of background noise I think in, in society.
- I sat there and I said, Oh my God, no child will be read a book in seven years without background noise complimenting the content, right?
Examples
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Even in the store, conversation was tough because the background noise made her hearing worse.
Fiction book (1998) -
On this section of the tape, when you clear out background noise, you can hear a female voice.
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There was some significant background noise at some points in our conversation, but I did my best to cut this out.
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Second thing that they did was they added a little bit of background noise to these.
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Everything else is just background noise.
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Are you able to understand speech in background noise, groups, and restaurants better?
Academic text (2006) -
But the mere breathing of so many people created a low background noise in the courtroom.
Fiction book (1999) -
Because they met at an off-peak time at the restaurant, there was very little background noise or other distractions.
Academic text (2012) -
We were more curious to learn whether CHL would suffer in the presence of background noise typically considered innocuous.
Academic text (2012) -
The loud background noise from the street made it difficult to concentrate during the meeting.
Synonyms
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5.6
Extra sounds or information that hide the main message
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5.7
Unwanted signals or noise that make measurements unclear
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3.1
How loud unwanted background sound is
Unwanted background sound or electrical hiss that hides the true signal
An unwanted noise from other sources that gets in the way of a measurement
Antonyms
How Loud
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3.9
- Specialized
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6.6
- Specialized
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3.5
31
4.2
- Jargon
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6.5
660
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'extraneous sounds present during recording or perception' is directly and compositionally derived from 'background' (something behind or secondary) + 'noise' (unwanted sound). This noun+noun compound follows a very common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g. Spanish 'ruido de fondo', French 'bruit de fond'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Background noise comes from the image of sounds behind the main sound: background means behind and noise means unwanted sound. Imagine talking while a radio plays in the room; that extra sound sits in the background and can 'get in the way' of what you want to hear, so the phrase now means any extra sound that makes listening or recording harder.