Meaning & use
microbar
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A unit of pressure equal to one-millionth of a bar, commonly used to measure sound pressure in acoustics.
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Engineers measured the sound pressure level in microbars to assess the noise from the engine.
Older acoustics textbooks express sound pressure in microbars rather than pascals.
A note on using this word
Largely a technical unit from acoustics and physics, replaced in most modern usage by the pascal.
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