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:
- Noise (audio), residual low level "hiss or hum"
- Noise (video), "snow" on video or television pictures
- Image noise, related to digital photography
- Noise (electronics), related to electronic circuitry
- Ground noise, appearing at the ground terminal of audio equipment
- Noise (radio), interference related to radio signals
- Atmospheric noise, radio noise caused by lightning
- Cosmic noise, radio noise from outside the Earth's atmosphere
Any one of many statistical types or colors of noise, such as:
- Gaussian noise
- White noise
- Pink noise
- Brownian noise or "brown" noise
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