atmospheric static

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   a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference

   Synonymsstaticatmospherics

   Broadernoise

   Narrowerradio noise

Questions about atmospheric static

What does atmospheric static mean?

atmospheric static means "a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference".

What is another word for atmospheric static?

Close synonyms include static, atmospherics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atmospheric static a common word?

atmospheric static is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.