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UK
/lˈaʊdnəs/
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NOUN
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the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
the kids played their music at full volume - tasteless showiness
How To Use loudness In A Sentence
- Chris was speaking with theatrical loudness, so practically everybody on the coach could hear him talk.
- Six young poets have also been shortlisted for the £5,000 Felix Dennis prize for the best first collection of poetry: Rachael Boast, for Sidereal; Judy Brown, for Loudness; Nancy Gaffield, for Tokaido Road; Ahren Warner for Confer; John Whale, for Waterloo Teeth; and Nerys Williams for Sound Archive. Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent
- The term & quot ; attack & quot ; does not necessarily imply power and loudness.
- Vietnamese also honor reserve and modesty, attributing loudness and brashness to immaturity and vulgarity.
- Such a misperception can lead to "loudness" -- all caps "screaming", hyperbole, exaggeration and such. Trolls, Anger, Taking Offense and One-Hit- Wonders
- It is a sorry fact of today's opera world that homogenized loudness is often valued above individualized refinement, yet Mr. Calleja's plangent cantabile phrasing, in which each note is connected in a seamless golden line, recalls the old masters like Gigli whose voice his most resembles and more recent exponents of exquisite vocal art, like Carlo Bergonzi and the late Alain Vanzo. Here to Deal With the Devil
- The end result is that when the intensity is increased a millionfold we perceive the loudness to have increased by a factor of twelve.
- And do thou (O reader!) bring thy Lord to remembrance in thy soul with humility and in reverence without loudness in words in the mornings and evenings; and be not thou of those who are unheedful.
- Last December, the CALM Act was passed in the U.S. the initials in the name stand for Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation requiring the Federal Communications Commission to keep TV networks in line. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- While the second form of compression is as old as vinyl (the revenge of Phil Specter?) these two types of compression are related as apparently louder music gives more room to hide digital compression artifacts, so producers are compressing music and increasing loudness. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Why Modern Music Sucks