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Bark scale
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English
Etymology
Proposed by Eberhard Zwicker in 1961, and named after Heinrich Barkhausen, who proposed the first subjective measurements of loudness.
Proper noun
Bark scale 1
A psychoacoustic scale of frequency on which equal distances correspond with perceptually equal distances.
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