acoustic comfort index
acoustic comfort index
[ə′küs·tik ′käm·fərt ′in·deks] (acoustics)
An arbitrarily designed scale to indicate the noise inside the passenger cabin of an aircraft; on this scale +100 represents ideal conditions or zero noise, 0 represents barely tolerable conditions, and -100 represents intolerable conditions. Abbreviated ACI.
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