Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun db
2 senses of db
Sense 1
dubnium, Db, hahnium, element 105, atomic number 105 -- (a transuranic element)
=> chemical element, element -- (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
Sense 2
decibel, dB -- (a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity)
=> sound unit -- (any acoustic unit of measurement)