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SABIN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)

Synonyms:

Albert Bruce Sabin; Albert Sabin; Sabin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("sabin" is a kind of...):

absorption unit (a unit for measuring absorption)

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