Meanings
proper nounthe Bark scale
- A psychoacoustic scale of frequency on which equal distances correspond with perceptually equal distances.
Origin
Proposed by Eberhard Zwicker in 1961, and named after Heinrich Barkhausen, who proposed the first subjective measurements of loudness.
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Bark scale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bark%20scale
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