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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?se?b?n/

Noun

sabin (plural sabins)

1. (acoustics) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
   • 2012, Rupert Christiansen, ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review, Sep 2012:

     Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.

Anagrams

• Bains, Basin, Bians, IBANs, Ibans, Nabis, bains, basin, nabis, naibs, nisab, nisba

English

Etymology

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Noun

sabino (plural sabinos)

1. Any of various trees:
   1. bald cypress (Taxodium distichum).
   2. ahuehuete (Taxodium mucronatum)
   3. rock cedar (Juniperus ashei)
   4. Magnolia splendens
2. A pinto horse with a white spotted pattern.

See also

• overo
• tobiano

Further reading

• Bald cypress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Taxodium mucronatum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Magnolia splendens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Magnolia splendens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Taxodium distichum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Taxodium mucronatum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Bosnia, basion, bonsai

Spanish

Adjective

sabino (feminine sabina, masculine plural sabinos, feminine plural sabinas)

1. (historical) Sabine