judged perceived noise level

11.12  judged perceived noise level. Sound pressure level of a frontally presented octave band of pink noise centered on 1000 Hz having a duration of 2 s that is subjectively judged equally noisy to a given sound. Unit, decibel...

offset

11.11  offset. The deliberate turning off of a sound.

onset

11.10  onset. The deliberate turning on of a sound.

timbre

11.09  timbre. That multidimensional attribute of auditory sensation which enables a listener to judge that two non-identical sounds, similarly presented and having the same loudness, pitch, spatial location, and duration, are dissimilar. Timbre is related...

equal-loudness-level contour

11.08  equal-loudness-level contour. Curve that shows, as a function of frequency, the sound pressure level required to produce a given loudness for a listener having normal hearing, listening to a specified kind of sound in a specified...