How to Use sound pressure in a Sentence

sound pressure

noun

• In the Delos office, a wall-size screen displays metrics like sound pressure and how many trips have been taken on the building’s stairs.
  — Molly Osberg, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2021
• Reason: Greater sound pressure (volume) will reach the listener when the source is closer.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
• Take note: sound pressure level, measured in decibels (dB), is not strictly the same thing as loudness.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2021
• That converts to over 172 decibels of sound pressure, an unimaginably loud noise.
  — Aatish Bhatia, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2018
• Two decibels may not seem like much, but sound pressure is a logarithmic scale.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 26 June 2021
• The songs, although less complex than some other birds, have a sound pressure three times greater than that of the previous record-holder, the screaming piha.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2019
• One microphone is pointed in, monitoring the sound pressure in the ear canal and trying to drive it to zero while on a feedback loop.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2023
• The app uses a phone’s microphone to gauge the sound pressure of a room, smoothing out the readings to produce an average decibel level.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• For example, every 3-dBA increase denotes a doubling of the sound pressure.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 18 May 2022
• The unit that the meter is measuring is sound pressure in decibels, but weighted towards the frequencies that the human ear is more sensitive to.
  — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• The comfort of the memory foam padded ear cups is enhanced by the off-center driver positioning which reduces sound pressure on the ear canals — a feature that also helps to protect against hearing damage.
  — Brad Moon, Forbes, 12 June 2021
• Reason: Lower-energy sound sources produce less sound pressure, thus lower volume.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
• Apple Music chief Jimmy Iovine was spotted demoing the venue's beamforming sound technology, which distributes sound pressure and volume evenly across large distances such that every seat is, at least sonically, the best seat in the house.
  — Cherie Hu, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
• This cunning approach makes music sound louder without producing the higher sound pressure levels that can damage hearing and without sacrificing a clean and natural sound.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Equipped with Sony’s X-Balanced speaker unit and dual passive radiators, the speakers promise to deliver high-quality audio, powerful sound pressure and punchier bass with less distortion, according to the brand.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 July 2022
• The proprietary planar magnetic speaker has a high SPL (sound pressure level), low distortion, and exceptional clarity.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• Do high sound pressure levels of crowing in roosters necessitate passive mechanisms for protection against self-vocalization?
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024