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Sabin
Sabin
See also: sabin
English
Proper noun
Sabin
- A surname.
- Albert Sabin, medical researcher
- A male given name
- Sabin Figaro, Final Fantasy character
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See also: Sabin
English
Noun
sabin (plural sabins)
- (acoustics) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
- 2012, Rupert Christiansen, ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review, Sep 2012:
- Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.
- 2012, Rupert Christiansen, ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review, Sep 2012: