Sound or noise deliberately created to mask, cancel out, or oppose other sounds or noise.
From counter- (against) + noise (from Old French noise, 'loud sound'). A modern term used in acoustics and noise-cancellation technology.
Active noise-cancellation headphones use counternoise science—they produce sound waves that are opposite to incoming noise, causing the waves to cancel each other out in a perfect acoustic collision.
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