white noise

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   a noise produced by a stimulus containing all of the audible frequencies of vibration

   “white noise is a good masking agent”

   Broadernoise

Questions about white noise

What does white noise mean?

white noise means "a noise produced by a stimulus containing all of the audible frequencies of vibration".

Is white noise a common word?

white 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.