- meru mel (unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another)
Used mainly in linguistics, phonetics, and psychology of music to refer to a perceptual unit of pitch, not in everyday conversation.
この音は1000メルと測定された。
Kono oto wa sen meru to sokutei sareta.
This sound was measured as 1000 mels.
メル尺度に基づいて音高を分析した。
Meru shakudo ni motozuite onkou o bunseki shita.
We analyzed pitch based on the mel scale.
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