Noise

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The original meaning of noise is sound, generally unwanted, including:

  • Aircraft noise
  • Artificial noise in spectator sports
  • Background noise, in acoustics, any sound other than the monitored one
  • Comfort noise, used in telecommunications to fill silent gaps
  • Grey noise, random noise with psychoacoustic adjusted spectrum
  • Industrial noise, relevant to hearing damage and industrial hygiene
  • Jet noise, caused by high-velocity jets and turbulent eddies
  • Noise and vibration on maritime vessels
  • Noise pollution, that affects negatively the quality of life
  • Noise (acoustic), technical term for any sound, even deliberate
  • Noise, vibration, and harshness, quality criteria for vehicles
  • Traffic noise, including Roadway noise, Train noise
  • Seismic noise, random tremors of the ground

Noise may also mean noise (signal processing) -- different types of interference including:

Any one of many statistical types or colors of noise, such as:

Developmental noise, variations in living beings with same genome

  • Neuronal noise in neuroscience
  • Phonon noise in materials science
  • Synaptic noise in neuroscience

Noise may also mean one of many technical measures of noise intensity, such as

  • Noise figure, the ratio of the output noise power to attributable thermal noise
  • Noise spectral density, No measured in Watt/Hertz
  • Noise temperature, temperature that would produce equivalent semiconductor noise
  • Ambient noise level
  • Noise power

In computer graphics, noise may also mean a computer-generated pseudo-random texture, such as Perlin noise, Simplex noise, Value noise, Wavelet noise, Gradient noise, and Worley noise, Simulation noise

Noise may also mean:

  • Meta noise, irrelevant metadata in computer files
  • Cellular noise, in biology, random variability between cells
  • Communication noise, factors that impair human-to-human communication
  • Electrochemical noise, electrical fluctuations in electrolysis, corrosion, etc.
  • Internet background noise
  • Noise-based logic, where logic values are different stochastic processes
  • Noise (economic), relates to a theory of pricing developed by Fischer Black
  • Noise (probability), a statistical model for information on processes
  • Noise chart, a financial charting tool
  • Noise print, statistical signature of ambient noise for its suppression
  • Noise trader, in financial research, a stock trader that makes random decisions
  • Pseudorandom noise, in cryptography, artificial signal that can pass for random
  • Statistical noise, a colloquialism for recognized amounts of unexplained variation in a sample
  • Transcriptional noise, in biochemistry, errors in genetic transcription

In geography, noise may be:

  • The Noises, a set of privately owned islands northeast of Rakino Island, New Zealand

In arts and culture:

  • Noise in music, the occurrence of noise(s) in music, including noise reduction and uses in instrument tone, in composition and in performance
  • Noise music, a noise-based aesthetic in experimental music and sound art
  • Noise rock, a style of rock music prominent in the 1980s
  • Noise pop, an alternative rock genre developed in the UK in the mid-1980s
  • Noise Pop Festival, a indie rock festival started 1993 in San Francisco
  • Power noise, a derivative of noise music
  • String noise, made by guitar players sliding the fingers over the strings
  • NOiSE, a manga by Tsutomu Nihei
  • Noise Records, a German record label founded in 1983
  • Noise FM 876, a radio station in Australia
  • Noise (Goidelic mythology) or Naoise, a figure in Irish mythology
  • Noise (Archive album)
  • Noise, an album by DecembeRadio
  • Noise (2007 Australian film), a drama written and directed by Matthew Saville
  • Noise (2007 American film), a comedy-drama written and directed by Henry Bean
  • Noise (programming block), a Fuji TV late-night anime programming block
  • Noise (company), a second-party video game developer for Nintendo
  • Noise (book), a 2006 popular science book by Bart Kosko
  • Noise, a GStreamer-based audio player by the Pantheon desktop environment written in Vala
  • Noise (novel), a 2010 science fiction novel by Darin Bradley
  • Noise: The Political Economy of Music, a 1977 nonfiction book by Jacques Attali
  • Le Noise, a 2010 album by Canadian musician Neil Young
  • the Noise, a monthly newspaper in Northern Arizona
  • The Noise (album), a 1993 album by English singer Peter Hamill
  • The Noise: Frejus, a live video by the band King Crimson
  • The Noise (TV series), a 1996 magazine show on ITV

In some places, noise may also mean:

  • Knoxville Noise, a basketball franchise in Knoxville, TN
  • Nashville Noise, a basketball franchise in Nashville, TN
  • New York Noise, an indie rock music video TV program by NYCTV, 2003-2009

See also

  • Noíse, an alternative spelling of Naoise, a figure from Irish mythology

White noise (disambiguation)

  • Japanese noise rock
  • Father Pat Noise, a fictitious priest figuring in a Dublin hoax