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steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds; random noise with a uniform frequency spectrum over a wide range of frequencies

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  • A white-noise machine may help by drowning out distracting sounds.
  • Screens and white-noise projectors are all they give you for privacy.
  • This is pretty much like white-noise and distributed as N0.045,0.201.
  • It could also be a white-noise machine, either one made to induce sleep
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