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Db, symbol for the element dubnium dubnium (d ..... Click the link for more information. . decibel (dB)Unit for measuring the relative intensities of sounds or the relative amounts of acoustic or electric power. Because it requires about a tenfold increase in power for a sound to register twice as loud to the human ear, a logarithmic scale is useful for comparing sound intensity. Thus, the threshold of human hearing (absolute silence) is assigned the value of 0 dB and each increase of 10 dB corresponds to a tenfold increase in intensity and a doubling in loudness. The “threshold of pain” for intensity varies from 120 to 130 dB among different individuals. A related unit is the bel = 10 dB. DBSee database, decibel and D-sub connectors. dB (physics)
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