Auditory
['ɔːdɪt(ə)rɪ] or ['ɔdətɔri]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to the process of hearing; 'auditory processing'; 'an audile person' .
Editor: Vince--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.
(n.) An assembly of hearers; an audience.
(n.) An auditorium.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Audience, assembly of hearers.
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Examples
- Many cases are on record where the mental life is a lmost exclusively in visual, in auditory, or in motor terms. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was a vivisector, made sections of the brain in order to determine the funct ions of its parts, and severed the gustatory, optic, and auditory nerves with a similar end in view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The vibration of the ear drum will be transmitted by the three bones and the fluid to the fibers of the auditory nerves. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As the little old man concluded, he looked round on the attentive faces of his wondering auditory with a smile of grim delight. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The pulses created in the air by a sounding body are received by the ear and the impulses which they impart to the auditory nerve pass to the brain and we become conscious of a sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When this motion reaches the ear, it sets the drum of the ear into vibration, and these vibrations are in turn transmitted to the auditory nerves, which interpret the motion as sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This labyrinth is filled with a fluid in which are spread out the delicate sensitive fibers of the auditory nerves; and it is to these that the vibrations must be transmitted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The swim-bladder has, also, been worked in as an accessory to the auditory organs of certain fishes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- About 1860, Reis built several forms of electrical telephonic apparatus, all imitating in some degree the human ear, with its auditory tube, tympanum, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With many, in all forms of word-consciousness, the auditory image is predominant. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The impulses imparted to the auditory nerve reach the brain and in some unknown way are translated into sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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