| The report of a rifle is reduced to at least 92 decibels, but at the same time quieter sounds are amplified. |
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| Ballgames, bikes, scooters and a seeming unending game of tag keep the decibels up. |
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| The noise levels rose by more than a few decibels, while the games whizzed by at such speed that they made Concorde look slow. |
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| He gave me an audiometer test and, sure enough, my hearing in one ear at high decibels was considerably below normal. |
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| The Hunter's Ear is designed to compress sounds above 85 decibels into a safe hearing range. |
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| The threshold of pain on the Decibel Scale is 130, while a space rocket at take-off measures between 140 and 190 decibels. |
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| Sound pressure against the ears is measured in decibels on a scale that is logarithmic. |
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| The huge speakers belched out what must've been 500 decibels of music, with breaks in which the hosts would speak. |
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| Because the range of sound pressures that can be heard is so large, a logarithmic scale of decibels is used to measure sound intensity. |
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| Mr. Russell apparently had not overheard the conversation, as the din in the room had risen a few decibels. |
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| According to the results, the noise on Sunday was 58 decibels, compared to 80 decibels on Friday afternoon. |
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| That's when the tears flow thick and fast, and the howling and screaming increase by several decibels. |
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| The muffs have excellent noise attenuation in that they will bring the decibels down to a tolerable level. |
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| Well, it wasn't rock and roll as you would recognise it but there was certainly enough power and decibels to give the lugholes a good stinging. |
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| In the Stotts' front garden, they found sound levels reached 97.8 decibels, which can cause serious damage to the ears. |
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| As you try to lever them into position, they seem to suddenly sprout extra limbs to match the extra decibels they are producing. |
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| Humans feel pain when they hear sounds of 120 decibels, a level typically reached next to the speakers at a rock concert. |
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| Mr Cochrane has bought his own sound meter and claims to have recorded levels of 105 decibels inside his house. |
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| The device can create a sound at 120 decibels, loud enough to disable enemy combatants. |
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| The meter, which comes with instructions, will measure the intensity of the sound in decibels. |
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| Efficiency of the speakers determines the distance sound will travel and is measured in terms of decibels, the higher the better. |
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| The use of the phon as a unit of loudness is an improvement over just quoting the level in decibels. |
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| When we go a further three decibels higher, it doubles again, it compounds. |
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| There's no reason to have legislation that has a decibel level reading of 100 decibels for toys. |
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| The company says the system has the ability to identify and block up to 25 decibels of extraneous sound. |
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| Vibrations and judder are reduced and wind noise is lower by up to three decibels at 150 kilometres per hour, compared to a standard wiper blade. |
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| Well, you get 55 decibels inside a house, 85 in a car and 150 when a jet plane passes overhead. |
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| Normal speech level is at 50 decibels, a whisper at 30 decibels and a lawn mower at 105 decibels. |
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| With the tooting vuvuzelas cranking up the decibels, the second half proves even more of a spectacle. |
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| Sensitivity to sound is measured in decibels, a complicated measure of loudness. |
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| According to the standards here in Ontario, anything over 85 decibels is loud enough that you need to be wearing hearing protection. |
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| Spectators had to park a long way off and the sound level would not be allowed to exceed 40 decibels. |
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| Others suspected that the booming decibels of the concert would endanger the hollow double dome of the Taj. |
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| In Ealing, a suburb of London, the noise level was over 10 decibels lower than when all the traffic is present. |
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| The noise level of the Citadis tramway is 5 decibels less than that generated by motor traffic. |
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| Also, not one package had any information on the number of decibels generated by the toy, or any noise warning. |
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| On the ground, the noise created by the wind turbine is about 60 decibels, the same level as an ordinary conversation. |
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| Two decibels may not appear much, but three decibels represents nearly a cut of the noise by half. |
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| But if the decibels have for the most part been left in the studio's dressing room, the revolt still brews and the complaints are lining up. |
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| The nature of the scale means that a reduction of a very few decibels makes a significant difference. |
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| These background noises are sometimes amplified by several decibels and are painful or distracting for the applicant. |
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| Whether the input power is increased from 1 watt to 100 watts or from 1,000 watts to 100,000 watts, the amount of increase is still 20 decibels. |
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| In line with this directive, noise expressed in decibels is a measure of the standard of living. |
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| The loss of decibels on the current audiogram at the same frequency must be confirmed to be the same or greater as that on the release audiogram. |
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| The release of 195 decibels into this key waterway used by orcas, porpoises, seals, and other marine mammals was followed by an increase in strandings. |
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| When the woman had the noise level tested, it measured 67 to 72 decibels. |
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| Vibrations are measured in decibels which is the level of vibration. |
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| Hearing protection is recommended when sound exceeds 85 decibels. |
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| An aircraft taking off produces about 140 decibels of noise and motorways a further 75 decibels, both above levels deemed unacceptable by some health experts. |
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| Former star Monica Seles first raised the decibels to the level where you had to turn the sound down on the television set, so that young children could get to sleep. |
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| Will bipartisan outrage boost the decibels in D.C. loud enough for Holder to hear and heed? |
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| No one may blow the annoying plastic horn within the Emirates if it exceeds 100 decibels anymore. |
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| And here I am now, with the shades lowered and foam rammed in my ears, only to find out that nothing filters out the jackhammers that yammer at over 110 decibels an hour. |
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| The Diagnosis by a Doctor, who is a otolaryngologist, of the total and irreversible loss of hearing in each ear, with an auditory threshold of 90 decibels or greater. |
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| Whether you're looking for pure audio perfection or a way to really crank up the decibels, our audio products will always deliver that exhilarating sound experience you can't live without. |
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| A difference of even three decibels is easily heard. |
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| The people who followed the lord were called the 12 decibels. |
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| In the previously noted Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Public Works study, it was also found that concrete road noise averaged only two decibels higher than the asphalt section after five years of operation. |
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| With its loud, unpolished sound like an uncut diamond, the album serves heavy helpings of decibels and incandescent flames, as if spewing out the singer's visceral hatred for the system. |
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| Vibration levels are often measured in decibels. |
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| Following adjustments for internal losses, the EIRP becomes the product of PT and PG, or the sum of PT and PG when both values are expressed in decibels. |
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| Besides indicating how much the tyre affects the car's fuel efficiency, it will also give information about its performance in wet conditions and its external rolling noise in decibels. |
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| Applicant had a release audiogram that indicated a loss of greater than 25 decibels in either ear at any frequency in the range of 500 to 8,000 hertz. |
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| Bat calls are some of the most intense, airborne animal sounds, and can range in intensity from between 60 and 140 decibels. |
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| A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle. |
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| Both are relatively quiet, typically producing less than 75 decibels, while a gasoline lawn mower can be 95 decibels or more. |
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| He is arguing that a strict interpretation should see it limited to 45 decibels. |
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| The airlines are seeking a reduction of only eight decibels or an exemption for all aircraft up to 30 years old. |
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| The shout broke the previous record of 128 decibels set by Australian Simon Robinson. |
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| A killjoy EU directive has set a maximum of 87 decibels. |
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| Sound pressure levels are measured in decibels and listening to music at 90 decibels for eight hours will cause definite hearing loss. |
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| Melbourne University researchers found urban silvereyes are shifting their song to overcome city sounds of up to 80 decibels. |
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| It was said that the noise of these motors is around 90 decibels. |
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| Their buzzing can reach 90 decibels, equivalent to some power motors. |
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| The usual hairdryers are extremely loud, and reach up to 75 decibels, which is as noisy as a vacuum cleaner, but is held besides your head. |
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| Listen to the yelp that falls just five decibels short of a motorcycle. |
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| The group maintains strict control over its sites and regularly verifies that noise levels do not exceed 80 decibels for extended periods of time. |
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| The number of points varies between 2, e.g. for an average sound level exceeding 85 decibels, and an upper limit of 50 in the case of an official wearing a self-contained fire protection suit. |
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| Your correspondent suspects the record companies have chosen deliberately to sacrifice some of the Compact Disc's delicious 90 decibels of dynamic range to make their music shout louder than ever over FM radio. |
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| For example, a whisper-20 decibels, normal conversation-60 decibels, lawn mower-90 decibels, chainsaw-110 decibels and a firecracker-140 decibels. |
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| Gill also says the airport has paid to insulate nearly 1,000 homes out of the 2,100 that are affected by noise over 65 decibels. |
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| The town crier from 2004 until his death in 2014 was John Melody, who acted as master of ceremonies in the city and who possessed a cry of 104 decibels. |
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| This study also recommended keeping music under a volume of 21 decibels. |
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| Consumer fireworks are also not allowed to be louder than 90 decibels. |
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| The MHP71 earmuffs are more than just electronic hearing protection that amplify whispers up to four times and reduce harmful sounds above 21 decibels. |
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| A jet plane at takeoff registers about 120 decibels, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and other organizations that care about such things. |
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| The noise limits can be compared to everyday noises, as an average bird call is recorded at 44 decibels, while a large electrical transformer is at 50 decibels. |
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