11.02 mel. Unit of pitch height. By definition, a simple tone of frequency 1000 hertz, 40 decibels above a listener’s threshold, produces a pitch height of 1000 mels. The pitch height of any sound that is judged by the listener to be n times that of a 1-mel tone is n mels.
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