sabin

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

  1. noun a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound
  2. noun United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)

Etymology

From Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist.

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