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The Hum is a name often given to widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise audible to many but not all people. Hums have been reported all over the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. [ 1 ][ 2 ] They are sometimes named according to the locality ...
Electromagnetically induced acoustic noise (and vibration), electromagnetically excited acoustic noise, or more commonly known as coil whine, is audible sound directly produced by materials vibrating under the excitation of electromagnetic forces. Some examples of this noise include the mains hum, hum of transformers, the whine of some rotating ...
Times Square, often referred to as the hum[1] or the Times Square Hum, [2] is a permanent sound art installation created by Max Neuhaus in Times Square in New York City. Originally installed in 1977, it was removed in 1992 and reinstalled in 2002. It is maintained by the Dia Art Foundation, who consider it one of the twelve locations and sites ...
Humorism. 16th-century German illustration of the four humors: Flegmat (phlegm), Sanguin (blood), Coleric (yellow bile) and Melanc (black bile), divided between the male and female sexes. Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and ...
In an electrical system, a ground loop or earth loop occurs when two points of a circuit are intended to have the same ground reference potential but instead have a different potential between them. [ 1 ] This is typically caused when enough current is flowing in the connection between the two ground points to produce a voltage drop and cause ...
Hum is an American alternative rock band from Champaign, Illinois, United States. They are best known for their 1995 radio hit " Stars ". After initially disbanding in 2000, Hum was largely inactive (save for sporadic performances) until reuniting in 2015 for a series of short tours.
Humbucker. A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups. Humbucking coils are also used in dynamic microphones to cancel electromagnetic hum. Humbuckers are one of two main types of guitar pickups. The other is single coil.
A humbug is a person or object that behaves in a deceptive or dishonest way, often as a hoax or in jest. [1][2] The term was first described in 1751 as student slang, and recorded in 1840 as a "nautical phrase". [3] It is now also often used as an exclamation to describe something as hypocritical nonsense or gibberish.