anti-noiseadj.n.
A. adj.
Opposed to noise.
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1839 Picayune (New Orleans) 26 Feb. 24 There is more quiet and less rowdying..here than in Boston, with its anti-drinking, anti-bellringing and other anti-noise making laws.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 1 Aug. 3/2 New York has started an anti-noise crusade.
1961 B.S.I. News Sept. 23 (title) Anti-noise regulations.
B. n.
A sound wave used to cancel another sound wave, from which it differs in phase.
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1974 Acustica 30 40 Sound absorption..can also be obtained by interference. It is the principle of active sound absorption... Finally an ‘anti-noise’ device is described which is tested in an impedance tube.
1988 New Scientist 9 June 52/3 A small American firm, Noise Cancellation Technologies (NCT), claims to be the first to have produced an ‘anti-noise’ signal processor.
1993 World & I Mar. 187/1 They fitted noise cancellation (antinoise) devices to their loading equipment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online November 2010).
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