SABIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sabin mean? 

• SABIN (noun)
  The noun SABIN has 2 senses:

1. a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound

2. United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)

  Familiarity information: SABIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SABIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("sabin" is a kind of...):

absorption unit (a unit for measuring absorption)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Albert Bruce Sabin; Albert Sabin; Sabin

Instance hypernyms:

microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)