surface noise

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   noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record

   Broaderbackground noise

Questions about surface noise

What does surface noise mean?

surface noise means "noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record".

Is surface noise a common word?

surface noise 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.