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say it: SAY-bin
sabin is a noun meaning "a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound
United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sabin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.