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Decibel with the abbreviation dB is equal to one-tenth of a bel, after Alexander Graham Bell. It is a measuring system, first used in telephony in 1929, where signal loss is a logarithmic function of the cable length; see: W.H. Martin, "DeciBel - the new name for the transmission unit. Bell System Tech. J. January, 1929".

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