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  2. Noise regulation - Wikipedia

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    Boston, MA(Section 16–26.4) permits construction on weekdays between 7 am and 6 pm. Madison, WI (Chapter 24.08) limits sound levels to 88 dB(A) at 50 Feet. Miami, FL (Section 36-6) considers the noise a noise disturbance if it occurs between 6 pm and 8 am during the week and any time on Sunday.

  3. Decibel - Wikipedia

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    The decibel originates from methods used to quantify signal loss in telegraph and telephone circuits. Until the mid-1920s, the unit for loss was miles of standard cable (MSC). 1 MSC corresponded to the loss of power over one mile (approximately 1.6 km) of standard telephone cable at a frequency of 5000 radians per second (795.8 Hz), and matched closely the smallest attenuation detectable to a ...

  4. Sound pressure - Wikipedia

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    While 1 atm (194 dB peak or 191 dB SPL) [11] [12] is the largest pressure variation an undistorted sound wave can have in Earth's atmosphere (i. e., if the thermodynamic properties of the air are disregarded; in reality, the sound waves become progressively non-linear starting over 150 dB), larger sound waves can be present in other atmospheres ...

  5. Decibel Level Climbs During Artemis I Launch in Florida - AOL

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    A Florida man captured the decibel levels increasing as NASA successfully launched the Artemis moon rocket, its most powerful ever, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Wednesday, November ...

  6. Ambient noise level - Wikipedia

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    Ambient noise level is measured with a sound level meter. [4] It is usually measured in dB relative to a reference pressure of 0.00002 Pa, i.e., 20 μPa (micropascals) in SI units. [5] This is because 20 μPa is the faintest sound the human ear can detect. [5] A pascal is a newton per square meter.

  7. Long-range acoustic device - Wikipedia

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    A long-range acoustic device (LRAD), acoustic hailing device (AHD) or sound cannon is a specialized loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance. It has been used as a method of crowd control , which has caused permanent hearing damage , having an extremely high decibel capacity (up to 160 dB measured at one ...

  8. Noise dosimeter - Wikipedia

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    A noise or sound dose is the amount of sound a person is exposed to in a day. The dose is represented by a percentage. A noise dose of 100% means that a person has exceeded the permissible amount of noise. Any noise exposure after the 100% noise dose may damage hearing. The exchange rate is the rate at which exposure accumulates.

  9. Sound level meter - Wikipedia

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    The sound level generated is 94 dB, which corresponds to a root-mean-square sound pressure of 1 pascal and is at a frequency of 1 kHz where all the frequency weightings have the same sensitivity. For a complete sound level meter check, periodic testing outlined in IEC61672.3-2013 should be carried out.