counternoise

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ noise

Noun[edit]

counternoise (plural counternoises)

  1. A noise in response or opposition to another noise.
    • 1950, Reprints of the Publication of the Department of Medicine of the University of Chicago, page 72:
      […] the production of counternoises (hissing, booing), over which the listeners at least had control, to drown out the uncontrollable and unintelligible music.
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