audio-, aud-, audi-, audit- +

(Latin: hearing, listening, perception of sounds)


auditorily
Referring to, relating to, or experienced through hearing.
auditorium (s), auditoria (pl)
1. The part of a theater designed to accommodate an audience.
2. A large room to accommodate an audience in a building; such as, a school or theater.
3. A large building for public meetings or performances.
4. Etymology: from Latin auditorium, "lecture room"; literally, "a place where something is heard"; neuter of auditorius, "of" or "for hearing"; from auditor, "a listener"; from audire, "to hear".

The auditorium can also describe an entire theater, and has been in use as a word since the 18th century, although there were other words with the same meaning before that.

auditory
1. Pertaining to hearing, to the sense of hearing, or to the organs of hearing.
2. Auditory hallucinations.
3. An assembly of hearers; an audience.
4. An auditorium; especially, the nave of a church.
auditory adaptation
The ability to adapt to changes in sound, as evidenced by changes in the auditory threshold resulting from exposure to sound.
auditory aura
Epileptic aura (phenomenon perceived only by the patient) characterized by illusions or hallucinations of sound.
auditory hypoesthesia (hypoacusis)
The partial loss of hearing.
auditory impedance
A mechanical factor that determines the amount of sound energy that is absorbed or reflected at the eardrum; related to the loss of transmission of sounds to the middle ear and the cochlea (part of the inner ear that converts mechanical energy, or vibrations, into nerve impulses sent to the brain).
auditory nerve, acoustic nerve
The eighth cranial nerve, or vestibulocochlear nerve (relating to the vestibule and the cochlea of the ear), which innervates the ear and carries impulses relating to both sound stimuli and balance to the brain.
auditory synesthesia, subjective sound
An auditory sensation that occurs when another sense is stimulated.
auditosensory
Describing or pertaining to the auditory receptive area of the temporal cortex.
auditress
A female hearer or listener.
audit total
In computer programming, a known quantity or sum that is used to verify intermediate or final results of data processing, usually in an accounting or other financial application.
autoaudible
1. A description of a condition in which the sounds of an individual's heart are audible to that person.
2. Audible to oneself; used especially of sounds arising within the components of the middle, or inner ear, or vascular and other sounds arising more distantly in the body.

All animal cries are said to be autoaudible.

behavioral observation audiometry
A method of observing the motor responses of young children to test sound intensities to determine the hearing threshold.
clairaudience (Latin > French)
1. The supposed power to hear things outside the range of normal perception.
2. The perceived power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity; such as, the voices of the dead.

Related "hear, hearing; listen, listening" units: acous-; ausculto-.


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