AUDIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does audio mean? 

• AUDIO (noun)
  The noun AUDIO has 4 senses:

1. the audible part of a transmitted signal

2. an audible acoustic wave frequency

3. a recording of acoustic signals

4. the sound elements of television

  Familiarity information: AUDIO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The audible part of a transmitted signal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

audio; sound

Context example:

they always raise the audio for commercials

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

auditory communication (communication that relies on hearing)

Holonyms ("audio" is a part of...):

telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An audible acoustic wave frequency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

audio; audio frequency

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

frequence; frequency; oftenness (the number of occurrences within a given time period)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A recording of acoustic signals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

audio; audio recording; sound recording

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

recording (a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "audio"):

audiotape (a tape recording of sound)

disc; disk; phonograph record; phonograph recording; platter; record (sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove)

soundtrack (sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film)

talking book (sound recording of someone reading a book; frequently used by blind people)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The sound elements of television

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

component; constituent; element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system)

Holonyms ("audio" is a part of...):

television; television system (a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points)

 Context examples 

A computer environment in which multiple linkages enable users to move directly from one segment of audio, video, graphic, or text to another in a database.

(Hypermedia, NCI Thesaurus)

An electronic device for converting between serial data from a computer and an audio signal suitable for transmission over a telephone line connected to another modem.

(Modem Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): paragraph description, digital photo, audio track

(Animal Description, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

An optical disk that is physically the same as an audio CD, but contains multimedia information (images, sound, etc.) The user can interact with films, games and educational programs.

(Compact Disc-Interactive, NCI Thesaurus)

The change, from the analogue FM system to digital audio broadcasting, started on 11 January 2017 and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)

There is also an audio recording.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

A computer-controlled presentation of some combination of audio, video, animation, graphics, still photo, and/or text where users can control the presentation and often interact with it.

(Multimedia, NCI Thesaurus)

Using ultra-high-speed cameras and modern audio capture techniques, the researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that the ‘plink, plink’ sound produced by a water droplet hitting a liquid surface is caused not by the droplet itself, but by the oscillation of a small bubble of air trapped beneath the water’s surface.

(What causes the sound of a dripping tap – and how do you stop it?, University of Cambridge)

Audio Media (CAT/PAT)

(Audio Media, Food and Drug Administration)

A branch of artificial intelligence concerned with the identification of visual or audio patterns by computers.For the computer to recognize the patterns, the patterns must be converted into digital signals and compared with patterns already stored in memory.Some uses of this technology are in character recognition, voice recognition, handwriting recognition, and robotics.

(Pattern Recognition, NCI Thesaurus)