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bark scale

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English

Syllables
bark s-cale
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A psychoacoustic scale of frequency on which equal distances correspond with perceptually equal distances.

Etymology

Proposed by Eberhard Zwicker in 1961, and named after Heinrich Barkhausen, who proposed the first subjective measurements of loudness.

Inflected Forms

the Bark scale (canonical)

Questions

What does bark scale mean?
A psychoacoustic scale of frequency on which equal distances correspond with perceptually equal distances.
Where does bark scale come from?
Proposed by Eberhard Zwicker in 1961, and named after Heinrich Barkhausen, who proposed the first subjective measurements of loudness.

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