What is Noise Pollution?

Answer 1

dirty noise - as opposed to white noise..

Answer 2

Noise pollution, usually called environmental noise in technical venues, is displeasing human- or machine-created sound that disrupts the environment. The dominant form of noise pollution is from transportation sources, principally motor vehicles. The word noise comes from the Latin word nausea meaning seasickness.

Interestingly, creatures, most commonly birds, and even more commonly, crows, make noises that some humans would characterize as being displeasing; however, such crowspeech is rarely referred to as being 'pollution'.

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Answer 3

Noise pollution is a temporary or chronic sound (not necessarily loud) that disrupts the thinking, sleep, or another normal part of life for a person. Simple. The garbage truck that rumbles by at 5 in the morning and wakes you up. The roar of a jet airplane over your head. Etc....

Answer 4

noise pollution, human-created noise harmful to health or welfare. Transportation vehicles are the worst offenders, with aircraft, railroad stock, trucks, buses, automobiles, and motorcycles all producing excessive noise. Construction equipment, e.g., jackhammers and bulldozers, also produce substantial noise pollution.

Noise intensity is measured in decibel units. The decibel scale is logarithmic; each 10-decibel increase represents a tenfold increase in noise intensity. Human perception of loudness also conforms to a logarithmic scale; a 10-decibel increase is perceived as roughly a doubling of loudness. Thus, 30 decibels is 10 times more intense than 20 decibels and sounds twice as loud; 40 decibels is 100 times more intense than 20 and sounds 4 times as loud; 80 decibels is 1 million times more intense than 20 and sounds 64 times as loud. Distance diminishes the effective decibel level reaching the ear. Thus, moderate auto traffic at a distance of 100 ft (30 m) rates about 50 decibels. To a driver with a car window open or a pedestrian on the sidewalk, the same traffic rates about 70 decibels; that is, it sounds 4 times louder. At a distance of 2,000 ft (600 m), the noise of a jet takeoff reaches about 110 decibels—approximately the same as an automobile horn only 3 ft (1 m) away.

Subjected to 45 decibels of noise, the average person cannot sleep. At 120 decibels the ear registers pain, but hearing damage begins at a much lower level, about 85 decibels. The duration of the exposure is also important. There is evidence that among young Americans hearing sensitivity is decreasing year by year because of exposure to noise, including excessively amplified music. Apart from hearing loss, such noise can cause lack of sleep, irritability, heartburn, indigestion, ulcers, high blood pressure, and possibly heart disease. One burst of noise, as from a passing truck, is known to alter endocrine, neurological, and cardiovascular functions in many individuals; prolonged or frequent exposure to such noise tends to make the physiological disturbances chronic. In addition, noise-induced stress creates severe tension in daily living and contributes to mental illness.

Answer 5

Any noise that would disturb someone while they are trying to do something. From loud enough to affect hearing to slight enough to lose train of thought.

Answer 6

Excessive and unnecessary noise......like having to listen to other people's mobile phone ring-tones and conversations.

Answer 7

It's when a politician (or Barbara Streisand) opens their mouth.

Answer 8

human created noise harmful to health or welfare