bel

¹

[bel]

noun

Physics.

1. a unit of power ratio, equal to 10 decibels.

bel

²

[bel]

noun

1. bael.

Bel.

³

abbreviation

1. Belgian.

2. Belgic.

3. Belgium.

bel

¹

/ bɛl /

noun

1. Symbols: B.  b. a unit for comparing two power levels, equal to the logarithm to the base ten of the ratio of the two powers See also decibel

Bel

²

/ beɪl /

noun

1. (in Babylonian and Assyrian mythology) the god of the earth

bel

1. A unit of measurement equal to ten decibels.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bel¹

First recorded in 1925–30; named after A. G. Bell

Word History and Origins

Origin of bel¹

C20: named after Alexander Graham _Bell

Example Sentences

In 2021, he acquired a 15,000-square-foot Bel Air estate previously owned by the Hilton family, where court records indicate Ritter lived at the time she filed the restraining order.

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Bel Lyon, chief advisor for Latin America at the World Wildlife Fund - one of the agreement's original signatories – warned that suspending the moratorium "would be a disaster for the Amazon, its people, and the world, because it could open up an area the size of Portugal to deforestation".

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Anthony Anderson introduced them to the crowd, while Ice Cube delivered the trophy in a blue 1957 Chevy Bel Air.

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Later observers, such as the opera critic Henry Pleasants, have noted the bel canto qualities of his singing.

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Behind them is the Bel Espoir, a schooner vessel on which the youths -- whether from Libya and Egypt or France and Bosnia -- have been sailing the Mediterranean to promote peace.

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