

In episode 1 of Symphogear G, shortly after Maria summons Noise to the concert
hall, we get a shot of a rack of TVs showing news stations from around the
world reporting on the event.

[!["N.O.I.S.E.
appearance"](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kn5M0.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kn5M0.jpg)

In many of the languages shown (including English), the word "Noise" is set as
"N.O.I.S.E.", suggesting that it's actually an initialism (I'm guessing in
English).

Is it? If so, what does it stand for?


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Is "Noise" an initialism?


In the ja.Wikipedia article of
[Symphogear](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%A6%E5%A7%AB%E7%B5%B6%E5%94%B1%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%82%AE%E3%82%A2#.E4.BD.9C.E4.B8.AD.E7.94.A8.E8.AA.9E),
the term Noise is spelt as ノイズ, fully in Katakana. There is no mention of the
acronym N.O.I.S.E. at all in the whole article.

The **official website** of [Symphogear](http://symphogear.com/key06.html) and
[Symphogear G](http://symphogear-g.com/introduction/keyword_02.php) also use
the spelling ノイズ to refer to Noise, and there is also no mention of the
acronym N.O.I.S.E. at all in the explanation of the term.

In contrast, you can find various terms spelt in Latin characters from the
official websites and Wikipedia, such as F.I.S., S2CA, LiNKER, Anti_LiNKER,
and S.O.N.G.

Currently, there is no evidence that N.O.I.S.E. is an abbreviation of a longer
phrase. It is _probably_ a stylized word in order to clearly differentiate it
from the common noun "noise" for viewer from English-speaking countries (both
in-universe and in real life).


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