sabin

In acoustics, a unit used to measure the ability of a surface to absorb sound, equivalent to the absorption by 1 square foot of a perfect absorber. Occasionally called the open window unit. A metric sabin is absorption by a square meter of a perfect absorber.

It is named for the American physicist Wallace Clement Sabine (1868 – 1919).

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