Sa·bin (s  b n), Albert Bruce 1906-1993. American microbiologist and physician who developed a live-virus vaccine against polio (1957), replacing the killed-virus vaccine invented by Jonas Salk. |
| sa·bin (sbn) n. A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by one square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound. [After Wallace Clement Ware Sabine (1868-1919), American physicist.] |
sabin [ˈsæbɪn ˈseɪ-]
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(Physics / General Physics) Physics a unit of acoustic absorption equal to the absorption resulting from one square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface
[introduced by Wallace C. Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist]
Sabin [ˈseɪbɪn]
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(Biographies / Sabin, Albert Bruce (1906-1993) M, USnational of birth: Polish, SCIENCE: biologist) Albert Bruce. 1906-93, US microbiologist, born in Poland. He developed the Sabin vaccine (1955), taken orally to immunize against poliomyelitis
| sabin (sbn) A unit of acoustic absorption such that one square meter of material of one sabin absorbs 100 percent of the sound energy that strikes it. |
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| Noun | 1. | sabin - a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound absorption unit - a unit for measuring absorption |
| 2. | Sabin - United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906) |
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