Sentences with phrase «decibels over»

The V2 turbines are made from steel and aircraft - grade aluminum, are said to be quiet (less than 5 decibels over ambient noise levels), vibration - free, safe for birds and bats, and need no grid power to start spinning.

Not exact matches

We don't always agree on theology or politics, (the 2016 election promises to raise the pitch of our dinner conversations a few decibels), but my parents have always prioritized maintaining our relationship over maintaining ideological uniformity.

But after the fight was over — all three, 60 - second rounds of it — I will never forget Charlie impishly staring out across the room, his face completely unmarked, coyly waiting for the decibel level to reach fever pitch.

There's also odds on what the highest decibel level shown will be, with the over / under set at 135.5 and -140 on over.

It has smart ECO feature that eliminates minor background noise until the noise is over 40 decibels.

A Danish study found a 27 percent increase in stroke risk for every 10 - decibel increase in street noise for those over 65.

Dynamic range is the ratio between the signal ceiling over the noise floor and is usually measured in decibels (dB).

Meanwhile, behavioral biologist Henrik Brumm of the University of St. Andrews found that male nightingales have cranked up their mating calls as much as 14 decibels to remain audible over urban sounds.

Scientists have found that listening to music that exceeds 89 decibels via headphones for more an hour daily over five years could lead to hearing loss.

I feel like my senses have dulled over the years; I'm not hearing the same decibels, the colours don't seem as bright and vibrant.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Second: my 09 Santa Fe has a horrible sound system that you can't put up over 14 decibels without blowing a speaker.

With purring measuring regularly at about 80 decibels, that's over 16 times louder than the average purring cat.

According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), noise levels over 85 decibels are considered hazardous and have the potential to cause damage.

Over the next five the seven days, the count of noise measurements higher than three sigma decibels higher than the average background noise for the street, more than doubles.

That's noticeable in a quiet room, but it's over five decibels less than the Origin Millennium's load result.

The BRV - HD gets plenty loud — I measured it at just over 90 decibels, which easily filled a large room.

Those 10 speakers can reach over 100 dB, as tested with a digital decibel meter.

That's over ten decibels louder than the quietest Skylake desktop we've reviewed, the Origin Millennium, and several decibels noisier than other recently tested rigs.

We recorded 44.1 decibels from the moment the system booted up, louder than any desktop we've tested over the past year.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.