sabin

From Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪbɪn/

sabin (plural sabins)

1. (acoustics) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
   • 2012 Sep, Rupert Christiansen, “Quiet, Please”, in Literary Review:

     Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.

• Bains, Basin, Bians, IBANs, Ibans, Nabis, bains, basin, nabis, naibs, nisab, nisba

Borrowed from Latin Sabini or French Sabins.

sabin m or n (feminine singular sabină, masculine plural sabini, feminine and neuter plural sabine)

1. Sabinian

sabin m (plural sabini)

1. Sabine