Definition of Audibility

1. Noun. Quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear.

Exact synonyms: Audibleness
Generic synonyms: Perceptibility
Attributes: Audible, Hearable, Inaudible, Unhearable
Derivative terms: Audible, Audible
Antonyms: Inaudibility

Definition of Audibility

1. n. The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

Definition of Audibility

1. Noun. The quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Audibility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Audibility

aucuba
aucubas
aud.
audacious
audaciously
audaciousness
audaciousnesses
audacities
audacity
audad
audads
audax
audi alteram partem
audial
audibilities
audibility (current term)
audible
audibled
audibleness
audibles
audibling
audibly
audience
audience left
audience right
audienceless
audiences
audient
audients
audile

Literary usage of Audibility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"Effect of Meteorological Conditions upon audibility. ... Nearly equal audibility was found for winds blowing at right angles to the above, a phenomenon that ..."

2. Elements of Radiotelegraphy by Ellery W. Stone (1919)
"audibility MEASUREMENTS. 369. The taking of data on the strength of received signals constitutes what is termed an audibility measurement. ..."

3. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"audibility of Clock Bells. In connection with Mr. Marriott's notes on sound (and the clock bell of St Paul's Cathedral being heard at a distance), ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... the variation of the current with the pitch of the sound which gives a method for determining the range of audibility for pitch in the lower animals. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"Note on the audibility of single Sound Waves, and the Number of Vibrations necessary to ... audibility ..."

6. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1896)
"If so, we come back to difference-tones of the second order, and their asserted easy audibility from feeble generators is no more an objection to one theory ..."

7. The Thermionic Vacuum Tube and Its Applications by Hendrik Johannes Van der Bijl (1920)
"The audibility or " shunted telephone " method has been frequently applied ... Secondly, the way in which the audibility method is ordinarily used does not ..."

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