The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DECIBEL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DECIBEL
- Sound measure of beauty, we hear, after start of month
- Celeb, I’d go round making a bit of a noise?
- Credible reforms yielding right measure of intensity
- Writer diving in river left a sound measure
- Creditable art is removed then transported to unit
- No resistance in weirdly credible measure taken against racket
- 11 of 9 live long at first after 01/12
- Sound measure I’d associated with celeb in rehab
- A sound measure
- Sound measure to deal with bed lice
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What does DECIBEL mean?
DECIBEL noun- A common measure of sound intensity ratio that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = 10 log10(P1 / P2), where P1 and P2 are the relative powers of the sound.