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AUDIOMETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does audiometry mean? 

AUDIOMETRY (noun)
  The noun AUDIOMETRY has 2 senses:

1. the measurement of hearingplay

2. measuring sensitivity of hearingplay

  Familiarity information: AUDIOMETRY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AUDIOMETRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The measurement of hearing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

audiology; audiometry

Hypernyms ("audiometry" is a kind of...):

otology (the branch of medicine concerned with the ear)

Derivation:

audiometric (of or relating to audiometry)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Measuring sensitivity of hearing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("audiometry" is a kind of...):

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

Derivation:

audiometric (of or relating to audiometry)


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