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Noun: sone  sown
  1. A unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold
    "The psychoacoustic experiment measured loudness in sones"

Sounds like: som, sone, sew

Derived forms: sones

Type of: sound unit

Part of: phon

Encyclopedia: Sone, Burkina Faso