Sabin
- The unit of measure of sound absorption in the inch-pound system. A measure of the sound absorption of a surface. One sabin is the equivalent to one square foot of a perfectly absorptive surface.
- Named after Wallace Clement Sabine, the Harvard professor honoured as the "father of architectural acoustics" for his investigations into concert hall sound at the turn of the century.
See also: Average Room Absorption Coefficient, Metric Sabin, Room Absorption, Sabine, Wallace Clement.
