background noise
noun
: undesired sound that is heard in a radio broadcast, a tape recording, etc.
The recording had a lot of background noise.
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Like any public transportation, there can be a lot of background noise on a plane.
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Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
Many collaboration platforms also prioritize high-quality audio with AI audio codecs that can reduce background noise and improve voice clarity even in challenging network conditions.
—Melody Brue, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Any system will struggle to continuously identify, track, and monitor multiple targets over long ranges and amid ocean background noise, especially as submarines get quieter and oceans noisier.
—Sam Winter-Levy, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2025
One major improvement the team made to the experiment was to reduce background noise.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2025
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Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
Many collaboration platforms also prioritize high-quality audio with AI audio codecs that can reduce background noise and improve voice clarity even in challenging network conditions.
—Melody Brue, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Any system will struggle to continuously identify, track, and monitor multiple targets over long ranges and amid ocean background noise, especially as submarines get quieter and oceans noisier.
—Sam Winter-Levy, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2025
One major improvement the team made to the experiment was to reduce background noise.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Background noise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/background%20noise. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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