Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / November 13, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Oct. 2009
The term Noise you have an extended job in our language and it also has several references...
Inarticulate and loud sound that gives the receiver an unpleasant sensation
At the request of environment, noise will be called any inarticulate, confusing and more or less loud sound unwanted by the receiver and that will cause it a sensation unpleasantIn other words, noise is associated with a sound that is characterized by not being harmonious, nor does it have hearing beauty, far from it, and therefore, our ear, the main receiver of it, rejects it.
Covering your ears so as not to feel it or lessen its unpleasant effect is one of the most common ways that people find ourselves to defend ourselves from a noise that is more than horrible.
For example, horns in unison during a traffic jam turn out to be an example of inarticulate sound. Another example of noise is that which is generated in a closed space, with poor acoustics, and in which there are many people speaking loudly at the same time.
Synonym of fuss and mess
On the other hand, the word noise is also often used when you want to account for the uproar that is happening in a certain place. This sense of the word is commonly used as a synonym for mess. "The students spent the whole hour in class making noise and it was almost impossible to take a lesson."
Communicational noise: the message that the sender sends to the receiver cannot be decoded
While, in the field of communicationinterpersonal, the term noise does not have the same meaning that it is given in general terms, because noise in the context of a communication between two people will occur when the message that the sender sends to the receiver cannot be decoded by the receiver in a compliant way, generally because it does not contain a information that is clear enough that the recipient is unable to identify, individualize and even understand the information poured.
Abnormal signal or disturbance that occurs in a transmission system
Also, the anomalous signal or disturbance that occurs in a transmission system and that makes the information not arrive clearly is designated by the term noise. More precisely in the field of Telecommunications or when it comes to electronic devices, it is noise shall be considered to be any electrical disturbance that interferes with the transmitted or processed signals. A constant beep, a noise like that made by the wind when it blows hard, are some common types of noise at the behest of telecommunications.
Noises in phone calls, whether on the phone mobile or fixed telephony, are extremely common. Many times they are fought by cutting off communication and generating a new one that usually makes the noise disappear. It is also necessary and a fundamental condition that the telephone companies carry out the corresponding maintenance tasks so that communications improve.
Informatics: data without meaning
In the computing, the term noise is also widely used, as this will designate meaningless data that occurs only as an unwanted by-product of other activities.
Factors causing noise
Among the many issues that give rise to noise, the following can be mentioned: collision of electrons in movement, the disorderly movement in the thermionic valves, the irradiation of the black bodies, especially in the radio communications, sources of electrical devices with bad contacts, microwave background radiation, among others.
Much ado About Nothing
Linked to the concept of noise, there is a expression very popular, which we usually hear from people's mouths and which reads: much ado About Nothing, which is used by people when they want to realize the great disappointment caused by something or someone from which much more was expected. For example, a play is premiered that was announced as the bearer of much controversy, without However, when its premiere takes place it does not cause any impression because it does not bring that scandal that is advertised. About her it will surely be said: "in the end there was a lot of noise and few nuts".
As can be seen from the various meanings of the term, the concept of noise is very present in our language and has several references, so it is important to recognize each of them to apply the concept in a adequate.
Themes in Noise