Noise (disambiguation)

Noise's original meaning is sound, generally unwanted, including

Noise may also mean noise (signal processing), different types of interference including

Noise (audio), residual low level "hiss or hum"
Noise (video), "snow" on video or television pictures
Image noise, related to digital photography
Noise (electronics), related to electronic circuitry
- Ground noise, appearing at the ground terminal of audio equipment
Noise (radio), interference related to radio signals
- Atmospheric noise, radio noise caused by lightning
- Cosmic noise, radio noise from outside the Earth's atmosphere
Any one of many statistical types or colors of noise, such as
- Gaussian noise
- White noise
- Pink noise
- Brownian noise or "brown" noise
Developmental noise, variations in living beings with same genome
Neuronal noise in neuroscience
Phonon noise in materials science
Synaptic noise in neuroscience
Meta noise, irrelevant metadata in computer files

Noise may also mean one of many technical measures of noise intensity, such as

Noise figure, the ratio of the output noise power to attributable thermal noise
Noise spectral density, N_o measured in Watt/Hertz
Noise temperature, temperature that would produce equivalent semiconductor noise
Ambient noise level
Noise power

In computer graphics, noise may also mean a computer-generated pseudo-random texture, such as

Noise may also mean:

Cellular noise, in biology, random variability between cells
Communication noise, factors that impair human-to-human communication
Electrochemical noise, electrical fluctuations in electrolysis, corrosion, etc.
Internet background noise
Noise-based logic, where logic values are different stochastic processes
Noise (economic), relates to a theory of pricing developed by Fischer Black
Noise (probability), a statistical model for information on processes
Noise chart, a financial charting tool
Noise print, statistical signature of ambient noise for its suppression
Noise trader, in financial research, a stock trader that makes random decisions
Pseudorandom noise, in cryptography, artificial signal that can pass for random
Statistical noise, a colloquialism for recognized amounts of unexplained variation in a sample
Transcriptional noise, in biochemistry, errors in genetic transcription

In geography, noise may be:

The Noises, a set of privately owned islands northeast of Rakino Island, New Zealand

In arts and culture:

Noise in music, the occurrence of noise(s) in music, including noise reduction and uses in instrument tone, in composition and in performance
Noise music, a noise-based aesthetic in experimental music and sound art
Noise rock, a style of rock music prominent in the 1980s
Noise pop, an alternative rock genre developed in the UK in the mid-1980s
Noise Pop Festival, a indie rock festival started 1993 in San Francisco
Power noise, a derivative of noise music
String noise, made by guitar players sliding the fingers over the strings
NOiSE, a manga by Tsutomu Nihei
Noise Records, a German record label founded in 1983
Noise FM 876, a radio station in Australia
Noise (Goidelic mythology) or Naoise, a figure in Irish mythology
Noise (Archive album)
Noise, an album by DecembeRadio
Noise (2007 Australian film), a drama written and directed by Matthew Saville
Noise (2007 American film), a comedy-drama written and directed by Henry Bean
Noise (programming block), a Fuji TV late-night anime programming block
Noise (company), a second-party video game developer for Nintendo
Noise (book), a 2006 popular science book by Bart Kosko
Noise (novel), a 2010 science fiction novel by Darin Bradley
Noise: The Political Economy of Music, a 1977 nonfiction book by Jacques Attali

In some places, noise may also mean:

See also