How to Use sound pressure in a Sentence

sound pressure

noun
  • That means the subwoofer can’t handle the sound pressure levels.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Two decibels may not seem like much, but sound pressure is a logarithmic scale.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 26 June 2021
  • Subs with more powerful wattage have a better time dealing with sound pressure.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That converts to over 172 decibels of sound pressure, an unimaginably loud noise.
    — Aatish Bhatia, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2018
  • In the Delos office, a wall-size screen displays metrics like sound pressure and how many trips have been taken on the building’s stairs.
    — Molly Osberg, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2021
  • One microphone is pointed in, monitoring the sound pressure in the ear canal and trying to drive it to zero while on a feedback loop.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The songs, although less complex than some other birds, have a sound pressure three times greater than that of the previous record-holder, the screaming piha.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The larger compression area maximizes energy so that the driver doesn’t have to work as hard to increase the sound pressure to the horn’s throat.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The app uses a phone’s microphone to gauge the sound pressure of a room, smoothing out the readings to produce an average decibel level.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The unit that the meter is measuring is sound pressure in decibels, but weighted towards the frequencies that the human ear is more sensitive to.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • For example, every 3-dBA increase denotes a doubling of the sound pressure.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 18 May 2022
  • Focal says that main monitors require a low-end performance that can maintain precision, even at the highest sound pressure levels.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • This is almost four times more sensitive than just letting sound pressure reverberate through tissue, so this is likely the mechanism that baleen whales use the most.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Do high sound pressure levels of crowing in roosters necessitate passive mechanisms for protection against self-vocalization?
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2017
  • This cunning approach makes music sound louder without producing the higher sound pressure levels that can damage hearing and without sacrificing a clean and natural sound.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • At the root of the therapy, sound frequency is defined as the number of times per second that a sound pressure wave repeats itself, and the standard measure of frequency is a hertz (with one hertz equaling one vibration per second).
    — Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 11 July 2024
  • Popular Science Korea took field measurements that day and found that sound pressure exceeded 100 decibels near the venue, which is roughly the volume of a chainsaw.
    — Yook Jihun, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Other specifications like sensitivity and sound pressure levels also make a difference.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The proprietary planar magnetic speaker has a high SPL (sound pressure level), low distortion, and exceptional clarity.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The site conducted a successful engine hot fire test run on April 24, with footage demonstrating a water deluge system designed to cool the exhaust and reduce the sound pressure levels and showing hot rocket exhaust blasting the valley floor.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
  • The Canadian government, meanwhile, has ruled that humans can be directly harmed by airborne ultrasound at sound pressures of 155 decibels or higher—which is louder than a jet taking off at 25 meters.
    — Kevin Fu, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The best-cooling cases often reach that mark by spinning up their fans to annoyingly noisy levels, but the MasterFrame 600 halts that trend by having the third-quietest (or fourth-noisiest) sound pressure level of our test lot.
    — Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The experiment revealed that the piezoelectric devices in the model generated relatively small amounts of electricity, with the voltage output varying depending on the sound pressure level and the location of the energy harvesters.
    — Ramsha Zubairi, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Apple Music chief Jimmy Iovine was spotted demoing the venue's beamforming sound technology, which distributes sound pressure and volume evenly across large distances such that every seat is, at least sonically, the best seat in the house.
    — Cherie Hu, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Equipped with Sony’s X-Balanced speaker unit and dual passive radiators, the speakers promise to deliver high-quality audio, powerful sound pressure and punchier bass with less distortion, according to the brand.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 July 2022

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