English-Finnish translations for noise

• kohina
• melu
  Siksi tiedämme, että melu on melua. We know, therefore, that noise is noise.
  Erityisen ongelman muodostaa lentokoneiden aiheuttama melu. A separate problem is aircraft noise.
  Melu nostaisi maksua 1,1 sentillä. Noise would add 1.1 euro cents to this.
• häly
  Symbaalien hälyä kuullaan usein itämaisessa musiikissa ja jazzissa.
• lumisade
  Säätiedotuksessa ennustettiin illaksi lumisadetta.
  Lumisade hankaloittaa ajokeliä alkuviikosta maan keskiosissa (ilmatieteenlaitos.fi tiedote
  Ruudussa näkyy vain lumisadetta.

Definition of noise

• Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant
• Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations
• Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity
• The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population
• Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band
• A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock
• To make a noise; to sound
• To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip

Examples

• He knew that it was trash day, when the garbage collectors made all the noise
• signal-to-noise ratio
• The problems with the new computer system are causing a lot of noise at Head Office

Related words

• noiseless
• antinoise
• brunoise
• noisette
• noiselessly
• noiselessness
• viennoiserie
• chinoiserie
• denoise