Associations to the word «Db»

Wiktionary

DB, symbol. (element symbol) Symbol for dubnium.
DB, symbol. (metrology) The symbol for decibel
DB, noun. (databases) database
DB, noun. Dead body
DB, proper noun. (rail transport) Deutsche Bahn (German Railways)

Dictionary definition

DB, noun. A transuranic element.
DB, noun. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope