background noise
noun
: undesired sound that is heard in a radio broadcast, a tape recording, etc.
The recording had a lot of background noise.
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Clint Davis, People.com, 12 June 2025
Both could prove helpful in noisy environments with a lot of background noise.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 10 June 2025
DaVinci Resolve Studios' transcriptions aren't as accurate (especially if background noise is present).
—PC Magazine, 9 June 2025
But that very same thermal background noise, the researchers realized, would spontaneously generate electromagnetic waves that could theoretically be amplified.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for background noise
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“Background noise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/background%20noise. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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