Sabin
name, noun
name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
"Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’."
- 2 a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
"Albert Sabin, medical researcher"
- 2 A male given name.
"Sabin Figaro, Final Fantasy character"
- 3 A place in the United States:; A minor city in Clay County, Minnesota, named after Dwight M. Sabin.
- 4 A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
- 5 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the town of Sylvan, Richland County, Wisconsin.
Example
More examples"Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist.
Etymology 2
* As an English and French surname, from a personal name derived from Latin Sabinus. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Sabháin (“descendant of Sabhán”), from sabh (“cub”). Also found as Savage.