NOUN
- extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal
How To Use background noise In A Sentence
- Later it may possibly be used in ordinary conversation, but again quiet circumstances avoid interference from the background noise.
- But there was a background noise in the signal that just didn't go away, and they couldn't figure out how to get rid of it.
- In both the older and newer segments, the mix has some type of background noise, from crackling to hissing to buzzing to high-pitched whines.
- The background noise, a mixture of lairy shouting and R'n'B, is deafening. Diary of a separation
- The sounds of my body were so loud that the war was almost like background noise. Times, Sunday Times
- Multiple sources of background noise "harmonizing" -- who's studied this, and what did they find? Ask MetaFilter
- Dev had been at Santa Anita long enough for the background noises to become familiar. REMEMBER SUMMER
- It set up a moaning background noise that would occasionally gust into prominence, then lapse again to mere accompaniment.
- I love the fact that I can watch shows from hulu, switch over to Ted Talks for some inspiration, study a bit by watching opencourseware from MIT, and play some pandora for background noise when I have guests over. So That’s Why Hulu Hates Boxee
- The four-wheel drive system brings its own background noise, too.
