Sentence examples for zero decibels from inspiring English sources

Our world is getting louder, a bone-crunching and I.Q.-lowering fact that is explored, in an uncanny convergence, in not one but three new books — Mr. Keizer's as well as "Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence" (Scribner), by George Michelsen Foy; and "In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise" (Doubleday), by George Prochnik.

"Below zero decibels".

In "Zero Decibels" Mr. Foy goes in search of an impossible dream: absolute silence.

Attenuation of zero decibels means that the signal is passed without loss; three decibels means that the power of the signal decreases by one-half.

With George Michelsen Foy, it was a moment, described in the first paragraphs of "Zero Decibels," that took place on the uptown platform of the Broadway local at the 79th Street station.

Foy took it upon himself to seek out the world's quietest place, detailed in his recent book, Zero Decibels.

"I heard as though he had spoken at five hundred decibels.

"Six decibels above the ambient level is unreasonable".

Continuous low-frequency rumbling noises above eighty-five decibelsuchuch as those produced by helicopters and armored vehicles, are attenuated by more than thirty decibels.

A gunshot a metre away can measure more than a hundred and forty decibels.

A widely cited damage threshold for sustained exposure is eighty-five or ninety decibels.