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sabin

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a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound

Other meanings

2. noun

United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)

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