sabin

n.
A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by one square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound.

[After Wallace Clement Ware Sabine (1868-1919), American physicist.]

o.w.u.

acoustics An early name for sabin.

A unit of sound absorption equivalent to 1 sq ft of perfectly absorptive surface. Also see metric sabin.

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Meaning #1: a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound

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