English Explanatory Dictionary

Bark scale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Bark scale the Bark scale

Etymology

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

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