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phon  audio  (fn) KEY 

NOUN:
A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.
ETYMOLOGY:
German, from Greek phn, sound ; see phone1


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