sabin
sa·bin
noun
a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound
United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)
Origin
* As an English and French surname, from a personal name derived from Latin Sabinus. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Sabháin (“descendant of Sabhán”), from sabh (“cub”). Also found as Savage.
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