sound pressure level

1. 1.

   the physical intensity of sound

   Synonymsacoustic power

   Broaderintensity

Questions about sound pressure level

What does sound pressure level mean?

sound pressure level means "the physical intensity of sound".

What is another word for sound pressure level?

Close synonyms include acoustic power. 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 sound pressure level a common word?

sound pressure level 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.