Noise definitions
Effect of noise on humans

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Noise definitions


Effect of noise on humans

Author : Jacques JOUHANEAU

Publication date: October 10, 2008 | Lire en français

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1. Noise definitions

The first ambiguity that characterizes the notion of noise arises from its very definition.

According to the authors, noise is both a physical and a subjective phenomenon, the latter in the perceptual as well as the cultural sense.

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) defines noise as "sound that is generally random in character, with no well-defined components".

In the classic works (Larousse, Robert), noise is defined in reference to music, which, from the perspective of working conditions, would be hard to justify: "a set of sounds without harmony", "a phenomenon due to a superposition of various non-harmonic vibrations", or "that which, in what is perceived in the ear (sic), is not felt as musical sound".

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