different between sabin vs sarin

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

Named after the initials of its creators, Gerhard Schrader (1903–1990), Ambros, Rüdiger and Van der Linde.

Noun

sarin (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, military) The nerve gas O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon.

Synonyms

• GB

Translations

Anagrams

• Nairs, Nasir, Rains, Risan, arnis, naris, nasri, rains, ranis, siRNA, sirna

Finnish

Noun

sarin

1. Genitive singular form of sari.

Anagrams

• risan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.???/

Noun

sarin m (uncountable)

1. sarin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English sarin.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sa.???/

Noun

sarin m (uncountable)

1. sarin (a neurotoxin used as a chemical weapon)